Re: Git server eats all memory

On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 07:23:17PM +0200, Ivan Kanis wrote:

I expected the malloc to take 4G but was surprised it didn't. It seems
to be mmap taking all the memory. I am not familiar with that function,
it looks like it's mapping memory to a file... Is it reasonable to mmap
so much memory?

AFAIK, Git does not need to mmap the whole pack to memory, but it
is more efficient to mmap the whole pack wherever possible, because
it has a completely random access, so if you store only one sliding
window, you will have to re-read it many times. Besides, mmap size
does not mean that so much physical memory is used. Pages should
be loaded when they are necessary, and if you have more than one
client cloning the same repo, this memory should be shared by them.


Dmitry