Re: [FYI] very large text files and their problems.

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Ian Kumlien [off-list ref] wrote:

I'm uncertain if you got my reply since i did it out of bounds - so i'll
repeat myself - sorry... =)

yes I received it, just too busy this week.

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git needs to have atleast the same ammount of memory as the largest
file free... Couldn't this be worked around?

On a (32 bit) machine with 4GB memory - results in:
fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed (tried to allocate 3310214313 bytes)

(and i see how this could be a problem, but couldn't it be mitigated? or
is it bydesign and intended behaviour?)

I think that it's delta resolving that hogs all your memory. If your
files are smaller than 512M, try lower core.bigFileThreshold. The
topic jc/split-blob, which stores a big file are several smaller
pieces, might solve your problem. Unfortunately the topic is not
complete yet.

Well, in this case it's just stream unpacking gzip data to disk, i
understand if delta would be a problem... But wouldn't delta be a
problem in the sence of <size_of_change>+<size_of_subdata>+<result> ?

Ie, if the file is mmapped - it shouldn't have to be allocated, right?

We should not delta large files. I was worried that the large file
check could go wrong, But I guess your blob's not deltified in this
case.

When you receive a pack during a clone, the pack is streamed to
index-pack, not mmapped, and index-pack checks every object in there
in uncompressed form. I think I have found a way to avoid allocating
that much. Need some more check, then send out.
-- 
Duy