Hi Nicolas, On 3 April 2011 02:05, Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Don't use --max-pack-size. ÂThat won't help here. I've tried only --window-memory with different values and they all failed. It seems to me as though this option is simply ignored or non-existent. > How large are those tar files? The tar files aggregate to just under 2 GB and my complete working tree is around 3 GB. Whenever I run git-gc or git-repack they seem to reach a virtual mem. footprint of roughly 2.5 GB over the course of 10 minutes and then fail with the out-of-memory error. Alif -- 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