From: "Morten Welinder" <mwelinder@gmail.com>
To: "Johannes Schindelin" <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: "Kees-Jan Dijkzeul" <k.j.dijkzeul@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Cygwin can't handle huge packfiles?
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 10:26:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <118833cc0604030726r44b0682etec3349f62986e3c0@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0604031521170.4011@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
> The problem is not mmap() on cygwin, but that a fork() has to jump through
> loops to reinstall the open file descriptors on cygwin. If the
> corresponding file was deleted, that fails. Therefore, we work around that
> on cygwin by actually reading the file into memory, *not* mmap()ing it.
Maybe, but you aren't going to be able to handler much bigger packs
even on *nix. Unless you go 64-bit, that is.
M.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-03 14:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-03 9:46 Cygwin can't handle huge packfiles? Kees-Jan Dijkzeul
2006-04-03 13:23 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-04-03 14:26 ` Morten Welinder [this message]
2006-04-03 14:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-04-03 14:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-04-05 13:24 ` Kees-Jan Dijkzeul
2006-04-05 14:14 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-04-05 21:08 ` Christopher Faylor
2006-04-05 23:27 ` Rutger Nijlunsing
2006-04-06 0:34 ` Christopher Faylor
2006-04-06 4:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-04-07 8:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-04-07 8:27 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-04-07 14:11 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-04-07 18:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-04-07 18:46 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-04-03 15:12 ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-04-03 14:38 ` Alex Riesen
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-04-06 20:57 linux
2006-04-06 23:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-04-07 3:05 ` linux
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