Below is the output from my index-pack/clone over git:// This is with the recent memory patch applied but testing some less crazy tuning. -- The corruption of the signal number shows up in google from other people so I guess it's a lingering bug. * git-tests $ git clone git://github.com/jsonn/src Cloning into 'src'... remote: Counting objects: 3497569, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (640647/640647), done. error: index-pack died of signal 9497569), 990.62 MiB | 8.35 MiB/s fatal: index-pack failed On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 6:32 AM, Duy Nguyen <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 11:10 PM, matthew sporleder <msporleder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I am attempting to clone this repo: https://github.com/jsonn/src/ > > This repo has 3.4M objects. Basic book keeping would cost 200MB (in > practice it'll be higher because I'm assuming no deltas in my > calculation). On my 64-bit system, it already uses 400+ MB at the > beginning of delta resolving phase, and is about 500MB during. 32-bit > systems cost less but I doubt we could keep it within 256 MB limit. I > think you just need more powerful machines for a repo this size. > > Also, they have some large files (udivmodti4_test.c 16MB, MD5SUMS > 6MB..) These giant files could make index-pack use more memory > especially if they are deltified. If you repack the repo with > core.bigFileThreshold about 1-2MB, then clone, you may get a better > memory consumption, but at the cost of bigger packs. > -- > Duy -- 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