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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@artemis.madism.org>
Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Something is broken in repack
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:18:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <851w9tl90i.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071211120851.GK30948@artemis.madism.org> (Pierre Habouzit's message of "Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:08:51 +0100")

Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@artemis.madism.org> writes:

> On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 11:08:47AM +0000, David Kastrup wrote:
>
>> Maybe address space fragmentation is involved here?  malloc/free for
>> large areas works using mmap in glibc.  There must be enough
>> _contiguous_ space for a new allocation to succeed.
>
>   Note that I find your explanation unlikely: glibc uses mmap for
> sizes over 128k by default (IIRC), and as soon as you use mmaps,
> that's the kernel that deals with the address space, and it's not
> necessarily contiguous, that's only true for the heap.

Every single allocation needs to be contiguous in virtual address space
and must not collide with existing virtual address space allocations.
So fragmentation is at least a logistical issue.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-11 12:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 82+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-07 23:05 Something is broken in repack Jon Smirl
2007-12-08  0:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-12-08  1:27   ` [PATCH] pack-objects: fix delta cache size accounting Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-08  1:46 ` Something is broken in repack Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-08  2:04   ` Jon Smirl
2007-12-08  2:28     ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-08  3:29       ` Jon Smirl
2007-12-08  3:37         ` David Brown
2007-12-08  4:22           ` Jon Smirl
2007-12-08  4:30             ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-08  5:01               ` Jon Smirl
2007-12-08  5:12                 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-08  3:48         ` Harvey Harrison
2007-12-08  2:22   ` Jon Smirl
2007-12-08  3:44   ` Harvey Harrison
2007-12-08 22:18   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-09  8:05     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-09 15:19       ` Jon Smirl
2007-12-09 18:25       ` Jon Smirl
2007-12-10  1:07         ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-10  2:49     ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-08  2:56 ` David Brown
2007-12-10 19:56 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-10 20:05   ` Jon Smirl
2007-12-10 20:16     ` Morten Welinder
2007-12-11  2:25 ` Jon Smirl
2007-12-11  2:55   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-11  3:27     ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-11 11:08       ` David Kastrup
2007-12-11 12:08         ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-12-11 12:18           ` David Kastrup [this message]
2007-12-11  3:49   ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-11  5:25     ` Jon Smirl
2007-12-11  5:29       ` Jon Smirl
2007-12-11  7:01         ` Jon Smirl
2007-12-11  7:34           ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-12-11 13:49           ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-11 15:00             ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-11 15:36               ` Jon Smirl
2007-12-11 16:20               ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-11 16:21                 ` Jon Smirl
2007-12-12  5:12                   ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-12  8:05                     ` David Kastrup
2007-12-14 16:18                       ` Wolfram Gloger
2007-12-12 15:48                     ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-12 16:17                       ` Paolo Bonzini
2007-12-12 16:37                       ` Linus Torvalds
2007-12-12 16:42                         ` David Miller
2007-12-12 16:54                           ` Linus Torvalds
2007-12-12 17:12                         ` Jon Smirl
2007-12-14 16:12                         ` Wolfram Gloger
2007-12-14 16:45                           ` David Kastrup
2007-12-14 16:59                             ` Wolfram Gloger
2007-12-13 13:32                       ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2007-12-13 15:32                         ` Paolo Bonzini
2007-12-13 16:29                           ` Paolo Bonzini
2007-12-13 16:39                           ` Johannes Sixt
2007-12-14  1:04                             ` Jakub Narebski
2007-12-14  6:14                               ` Paolo Bonzini
2007-12-14  6:24                                 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2007-12-14  8:20                                   ` Paolo Bonzini
2007-12-14  9:01                                     ` Harvey Harrison
2007-12-14 10:40                                   ` Jakub Narebski
2007-12-14 10:52                                     ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2007-12-14 13:25                                 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-12 16:13                     ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-13  7:32                       ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-12-14 16:03                         ` Wolfram Gloger
2007-12-11 16:33           ` Linus Torvalds
2007-12-11 17:21             ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-11 17:24               ` David Miller
2007-12-11 17:44                 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-11 20:26                   ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-12-11 18:43             ` Jon Smirl
2007-12-11 18:57               ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-11 19:17               ` Linus Torvalds
2007-12-11 19:40                 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-12-11 20:34                   ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-12-11 17:28           ` Daniel Berlin
2007-12-11 13:31         ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-12-11  6:01       ` Sean
2007-12-11  6:20         ` Jon Smirl

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