Hi, On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 12:03:38PM +0000, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > > The default was not to change the window or depth at all. As > > suggested by Jon Smirl, Linus Torvalds and others, default to > > > > --window=250 --depth=250 > > well, this will explode on many quite reasonnably sized systems. This > should also use a memory-limit that could be auto-guessed from the > system total physical memory (50% of the actual memory could be a good > idea e.g.). > > On very large repositories, using that on the e.g. linux kernel, swaps > like hell on a machine with 1Go of ram, and almost nothing running on it > (less than 200Mo of ram actually used) Yes. However, I think that --aggressive should be aggressive, and if you decide to run it on a machine which lacks the muscle to be aggressive, well, you should have known better. The upside: if you run this on a strong machine and clone it to a weak machine, you'll still have the benefit of a small pack (and you should mark it as .keep, too, to keep the benefit...) Ciao, Dscho - 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
