It took me a long time to notice the rider on the pack.threads configuration option that it would multiple the memory consumption by the number of CPUs in the machine. This patch puts the memory consumption warning against the memory option that I was using to try to stop git-pack running out of RAM. Signed-off-by: Robert de Bath <rdebath@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/config.txt | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index c55c22a..6384038 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -1828,7 +1828,10 @@ pack.depth:: pack.windowMemory:: The window memory size limit used by linkgit:git-pack-objects[1] - when no limit is given on the command line. The value can be + when no limit is given on the command line. This limit may be + allocated individually by each thread doing delta compression + so the total memory allocated by linkgit:git-pack-objects[1] can + be this multiplied by the number of threads. The value can be suffixed with "k", "m", or "g". Defaults to 0, meaning no limit. -- 1.7.10.4 -- 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