On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 03:07:05PM -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: > I noticed two things when doing a repack of the gcc repo. First is > that the git process is getting to be way too big. Turning off the > delta caches had minimal impact. Why does the process still grow to > 4.8GB? > > Putting this in perspective, this is a 4.8GB process constructing a > 330MB file. Something isn't right. Memory leak or inefficient data > structure? Keep in mind that you are trying many different deltas, which are being held in memory, to find the right one and generate the 330MB file. And when you multiply that times N threads going at once, _each one_ is using a bunch of memory. As Nico suggested, you could probably drop the memory usage by reducing the size of the delta cache. -Peff - 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
