Re: Something is broken in repack

Nicolas Pitre [off-list ref] writes:

On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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"Jon Smirl" [off-list ref] writes:

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95%   530  2.8G - 1,420 total to here, previous was 1,983
100% 1390 2.85G
During the writing phase RAM fell to 1.6G
What is being freed in the writing phase??

entry->delta_data is the only thing I can think of that are freed
in the function that have been allocated much earlier before entering
the function.

Yet all ->delta-data instances are limited to 256MB according to Jon's 
config.

Maybe address space fragmentation is involved here?  malloc/free for
large areas works using mmap in glibc.  There must be enough
_contiguous_ space for a new allocation to succeed.

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