Re: pack operation is thrashing my server

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Shawn O. Pearce [off-list ref] wrote:

On the up side, packing should only be consuming huge memory like
this when it needs to move loose objects into a pack file.  I think
Martin Langhoff suggested packing this on your laptop then using
rsync over SSH to copy the pack file and .idx file to the server, so
the server didn't have to spend time figuring out the deltas itself.

Do you need to also introduce a ".keep" file to get the benefit from
this?  I had a repo with some very large objects, and it was killing
my low-memory server *every* time I did "git gc", until I repacked on
another system, created the .keep file, and rsynced it back.  Does
that make sense?

Thanks,

Avery