Eric Wong <normalperson@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Victor Leschuk <vleschuk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The thing is that git-cat-file keeps growing during work when running > > in "batch" mode. See the figure attached: it is for cloning a rather > > small repo (1 hour to clone about ~14000 revisions). However the clone > > of a large repo (~280000 revisions) took about 2 weeks and > > git-cat-file has outgrown the parent perl process several times > > (git-cat-file - ~3-4Gb, perl - 400Mb). How much of that is anonymous memory, though? (pmap $PID_OF_GIT_CAT_FILE) Running the following on the Linux kernel tree I had lying around: (for i in $(seq 100 200); do git ls-files | sed -e "s/^/HEAD~$i:/"; done)|\ git cat-file --batch >/dev/null Reveals about 510M RSS in top, but pmap says less than 20M of that is anonymous. So the rest are mmap-ed packfiles; that RSS gets transparently released back to the kernel under memory pressure. -- 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