On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > While I have your attention, there is a patch for the sliding > mmap() thing that raises the mmap window to 1GB (which means a > pack smaller than that is mmap'ed in its entirety, whle 2.3GB > pack will be mapped perhaps as three separate chunks) and the > total mmap window to 8GB (and any overflows we LRU out) on > places where sizeof(void*) == 8 (i.e. git compiled for 64-bit). > > Currently these limits are 32MB and 256MB respectively on > platforms with real mmap(). > > Do you have any comments on it? I think it's fine. Most "normal" mmap users hopefully will only use a small portion of the mapped space, adn if they use it all, it means that they needed it all, so.. Linus - 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