Re: git-repack: Outof memory

Dongsheng Song [off-list ref] wrote:

finished, thanks a lot.

$ ls -l .git/objects/pack/
total 1675466
-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data    2964992 Sep 17 19:17
pack-b09c57c25e4459f6365b5d27139abfd93bf1c86f.idx
-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 1711037142 Sep 17 19:17
pack-b09c57c25e4459f6365b5d27139abfd93bf1c86f.pack

If the pack files larger than 2.5g,  how can  I repack it on i686 ?

*youch* A 1.5 GiB pack file?

Your files apparently do not delta compress very well.  I fear that
you are going to bump up against address space limitations soon
on 32 bit systems.  Then you will bump up against the 4 GiB pack
file size limit.  Which means you will need to use several packs
and avoid the '-a' flag when calling git-repack.

Nico was suggesting using the default window size (rather than
--window=64) as larger windows requires more memory during repack.
But you may also need the mmap window code I'm working on.  I better
hurry up and get that into Junio's testing branches.  :-)

-- 
Shawn.