Re: git repack memory limit

On 18 May 2010 16:10, Bahadir Balban [off-list ref] wrote:

I am running git-repack on a server with memory limits. I am seeing the
repack spending 400MB and going out of memory. I could not limit repack
memory usage in anyway. I tried:

git config pack.deltaCacheLimit 1
git config pack.deltaCacheSize 1
git config pack.windowMemory 32m

then git repack -a -f -d

also I would particularly expect git repack -a -f -d --window-memory=16
to succeed.

Using git 1.6.5. Any thoughts?

I ran into a similar situation before.

I believe it loads the entire file to memory, so if you have a single
file that's larger than the available memory, you'll run out of
memory, no matter how you tweak your settings.