Alex Riesen wrote: >> So the problem is probably memory fragmentation. > > probably. > >> You might have more joy if you allocated one HUGE chunk immediately on >> startup to use for the pack, and then kept re-using that chunk. > > Well, it is not _one_ chunk. The windows/cygwin abomin...combination > may take an issue with this: it seem to copy complete address space > at fork, which even for such a small packs I have here takes system > down lightly (yes, I tried it). Perhaps planned mmapping only parts of packs would help there. -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html