Re: [PATCH] RFC: git lazy clone proof-of-concept

[Sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>]

On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 22:10:06 -0500 (EST)
Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:

> On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Jan Holesovsky wrote:
> 
> > On Friday 08 February 2008 20:00, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> > 
> > > Both Mozilla import, and GCC import were packed below 0.5 GB. Warning:
> > > you would need machine with large amount of memory to repack it
> > > tightly in sensible time!
> > 
> > As I answered elsewhere, unfortunately it goes out of memory even on 8G 
> > machine (x86-64), so...  But still trying.
> 
> Try setting the following config variables as follows:
> 
> 	git config pack.deltaCacheLimit 1
> 	git config pack.deltaCacheSize 1
> 	git config pack.windowMemory 1g
> 
> That should help keeping memory usage somewhat bounded.
> 

Hi Nicolas,

Tried that earlier today and got a 1.6G pack (on a 2G machine).  There are
some big objects in that repo.. over 100 are 30 to 62M in size, 400 more
over 10M, and ~40,000 over 100K.  Would you expect a larger memory window
(on a better machine) to help shrink the repo down any more?

Sean