On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Sun, 9 Dec 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > For example, if you use > > > > valgrind --tool=massif --heap=yes ... > > I tried this on my copy of the gcc thing, but I didn't do the extreme > packing thing, so I never saw the 3.4GB usage. Massif just reported a 200M > heap, and about half of that was "add_object_entry". So far, it seems that the problem occurs much more severely when you run 'git repack -a -f' while using the already highly packed gcc repo as a starting point. Remains to determine if it occurs only when the repack is threaded, or if that has no significance. Nicolas - 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