Re: Reducing the memory footprint

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On 11/9/07, Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 11/9/07, Brian Downing <bdowning@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 06:38:00PM -0500, Jon Smirl wrote:
> > > I'm using this config file:
> > >
> > > [pack]
> > >         windowMemory = 1M
> > >         deltaCacheSize = 1M
> > >
> > > And I have NO_MMAP compiled in.
> > >
> > > git is still using over 200MB of memory or address space, my process
> > > gets killed either way.
> >
> > I'm assuming it's dying on repacking since you included the pack
> > parameters.
> >
> > How big is your biggest object?  Even with pack.windowMemory, it still
> > keeps the last object around to try and delta against (in other words,
> > the window only shrinks to size 1), which means you have to have room
> > for it and its delta index.
>
> It's a Linux kernel repository. Git receive-pack is going over 200MB
> and getting zapped.  I don't understand why the process is so large. I
> am compiled with -DNO_MMAP.

I believe I must not have installed everything correctly with my
NO_MMAP build. After debugging for a while and fixing things I'm able
to do a push now in about 80MB of memory.

> I think I have a achieved a work around. I rsync'd in my last several
> weeks of changes. Now I can 'git push' small amounts of changes
> without getting killed.
>
> I'm begging dreamhost to simply install git. Installed commands don't
> get zapped.
>
> --
> Jon Smirl
> jonsmirl@xxxxxxxxx
>


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Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@xxxxxxxxx
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