Re: gc --aggressive

On 04/18/2012 12:18 AM, Jeff King wrote:

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 03:17:28PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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How many cores are there on this box? Have you tried setting
pack.windowMemory to (12 / # of cores) or thereabouts?

Hrm, from the end-user's point of view, it appears that pack.windowMemory
ought to mean the total without having to worry about the division of it
across threads (which the implementation should be responsible for).

Agreed. I had to look in the code to check which it meant. I'm not sure
we can change it without regressing existing users, though.

Introduce a new one.

core.maxmemoryusage = <something>, which acts as an upper bound in all
codepaths where we actually keep track.

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