Hi, On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Nicolas Pitre 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. I tried that: $ git config pack.deltaCacheLimit 1 $ git config pack.deltaCacheSize 1 $ git config pack.windowMemory 2g $ #/usr/bin/time git repack -a -d -f --window=250 --depth=250 $ du -s objects/ 2548137 objects/ $ /usr/bin/time git repack -a -d -f --window=250 --depth=250 Counting objects: 2477715, done. fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed411764) Command exited with non-zero status 1 9356.95user 53.33system 2:38:58elapsed 98%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (31929major+18088744minor)pagefaults 0swaps Note that this is on a 2.4GHz Quadcode CPU with 3.5GB RAM. I'm retrying with smaller values, but at over 2.5 hours per try, this is getting tedious. 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
