Ken Pratt <ken@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm having memory issues when trying to clone a remote git repository. > > 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. > > 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 Well, clearly the server is swapping at this point. 212m resident for this git-pack-objects process leaves no room available for anything else. Git is using too much memory for this system. > I've tried very conservative pack settings: > > [pack] > threads = 1 > windowmemory = 64M > deltacachesize = 1M > deltacachelimit = 1M Have you tried something like this? [core] packedGitWindowSize = 16m packedGitLimit = 64m [pack] threads = 1 windowMemory = 64m deltaCacheSize = 1m On a 64 bit system packedGitWindowSize and packedGitLimit have very large thresholds which will cause it to mmap in the entire pack file. You may need to try even smaller settings than these; 256m physical memory isn't a lot when dealing with a repository 180m in size. Especially on a 64 bit system. -- Shawn. -- 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
