Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > ... > I wonder where the memory is going. In theory, the memory consumption > for packing comes from keeping all of the objects for a given window in > memory (so we are looking for a delta for object X, and we have a window > of Y[0]..Y[$window] objects that we will consider). And for a > multi-threaded pack, that's per-thread. > > How many cores are there on this box? Have you tried setting > pack.windowMemory to (12 / # of cores) or thereabouts? Hrm, from the end-user's point of view, it appears that pack.windowMemory ought to mean the total without having to worry about the division of it across threads (which the implementation should be responsible for). > ... But it seems lame that git _can't_ > do a full repack on such a beefy machine. You don't want to do it all > the time, but you might want to do it at least once. True. -- 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