On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 22:10:06 -0500 (EST) Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Jan Holesovsky wrote: > > > On Friday 08 February 2008 20:00, Jakub Narebski wrote: > > > > > Both Mozilla import, and GCC import were packed below 0.5 GB. Warning: > > > you would need machine with large amount of memory to repack it > > > tightly in sensible time! > > > > As I answered elsewhere, unfortunately it goes out of memory even on 8G > > machine (x86-64), so... But still trying. > > Try setting the following config variables as follows: > > git config pack.deltaCacheLimit 1 > git config pack.deltaCacheSize 1 > git config pack.windowMemory 1g > > That should help keeping memory usage somewhat bounded. > Hi Nicolas, Tried that earlier today and got a 1.6G pack (on a 2G machine). There are some big objects in that repo.. over 100 are 30 to 62M in size, 400 more over 10M, and ~40,000 over 100K. Would you expect a larger memory window (on a better machine) to help shrink the repo down any more? Sean - 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
