Hi,
I'm having memory issues when trying to clone a remote git repository.
I'm running: "git clone git+ssh://user@xxxxxxxxxxx/var/git/foo"
The remote repository is bare, and is 180MB in size (says du), with
1824 objects. The remote (VPS) server is running git version 1.5.6.4
on Arch Linux on a x86_64 Opteron with 256MB of dedicated RAM.
The clone command fires off some packing operations that bring the
server to its knees:
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
21782 kenpratt 20 0 444m 212m 272 D 3 83.0 0:04.98 git-pack-object
The clone also seems to hang forever. Progress stays at 0% for hours,
and it never progresses past compressing the first object.
I've tried very conservative pack settings:
[pack]
threads = 1
windowmemory = 64M
deltacachesize = 1M
deltacachelimit = 1M
[pack]
threads = 1
windowmemory = 16M
deltacachesize = 16M
deltacachelimit = 0
I've tries many variations like those, but nothing seems to help.
A "git repack -a -d" only takes 5 seconds to run on the same
repository on my laptop (a non-bare copy), and seems to peak at ~160MB
of RAM usage.
Any tips/help would be greatly appreciated. This repository is still
small -- it will eventually grow to multiple GB in size, as it is a
mix of small text files and binaries ranging in size from 2MB to
200MB. Is it not feasible to clone repositories of that size that are
hosted on a server with 256MB of RAM?
Thanks!
Ken
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