> Looking at /proc/meminfo only works on Linux, and maybe some other > OSes which support a /proc like design. But even then we don't > really know how much we are competing with other active processes > and how much memory we can use. Could we create a git config variable to specify the maximumum amoung memory to mmap? Any if that variable wasn't explicitly set, it would fall back on looking at /proc/meminfo? -- 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