Re: pack operation is thrashing my server

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 7:47 AM, Ken Pratt [off-list ref] wrote:

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.

As a workaround, if you repack on your laptop and rsync the pack+index
to the server, it will work. This can be used to serve huge projects
out of lightweight-ish servers. Yet another workaround is to perform
initial clones via rsync or http.

In your case, I agree that the repo doesn't seem large enough (or to
have large enough objects) to warrant having this problem. But that I
can't help much with myself - pack-machiner experts probably can.

cheers,


m
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