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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Cc: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Figured out how to get Mozilla into git
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 09:30:35 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0606090926550.5498@g5.osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0606091127540.19403@localhost.localdomain>



On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> 
> > So a single 2GB pack is already very much pushing it. It's really really 
> > hard to map in a 2GB file on a 32-bit platform: your VM is usually 
> > fragmented enough that it simply isn't practical. In fact, I think the 
> > limit for _practical_ usage of single packs is probably somewhere in the 
> > half-gig region, unless you just have 64-bit machines.
> 
> Sure, but have we already reached that size?

Not for the Linux repos.

But apparently the mozilla repo ends up being 2GB in git. From Martin:

  >> oh, I went back to a cvsimport that I started a couple days ago.
  >> Completed with no problems...
  >> 
  >> Last commit:
  >> commit 5ecb56b9c4566618fad602a8da656477e4c6447a
  >> Author: wtchang%redhat.com <wtchang%redhat.com>
  >> Date:   Fri Jun 2 17:20:37 2006 +0000
  >> 
  >>    Import NSPR 4.6.2 and NSS 3.11.1
  >> 
  >> mozilla.git$ du -sh .git/
  >> 2.0G    .git/

now that was done with _incremental_ repacking (ie his .git directory
won't be just one large pack), but I bet that if you were to clone it
(without using the "-l" flag or rsync/http), you'd end up with serious
trouble because of the single-pack limit.

So we're starting to see archives where single packs are problematic for
a 32-bit architecture. 

			Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-09 16:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-09  2:17 Figured out how to get Mozilla into git Jon Smirl
2006-06-09  2:56 ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-06-09  3:06 ` Martin Langhoff
2006-06-09  3:28   ` Jon Smirl
2006-06-09  7:17     ` Jakub Narebski
2006-06-09 15:01       ` Linus Torvalds
2006-06-09 16:11         ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-06-09 16:30           ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2006-06-09 17:38             ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-06-09 17:49               ` Linus Torvalds
2006-06-09 17:10           ` Jakub Narebski
2006-06-09 18:13   ` Jon Smirl
2006-06-09 19:00     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-06-09 20:17       ` Jon Smirl
2006-06-09 20:40         ` Linus Torvalds
2006-06-09 20:56           ` Jon Smirl
2006-06-09 21:57             ` Linus Torvalds
2006-06-09 22:17               ` Linus Torvalds
2006-06-09 23:16               ` Greg KH
2006-06-09 23:37               ` Martin Langhoff
2006-06-09 23:43                 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-06-10  0:00                   ` Jon Smirl
2006-06-10  0:11                     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-06-10  0:16                       ` Jon Smirl
2006-06-10  0:45                         ` Jon Smirl
2006-06-09 20:44         ` Jakub Narebski
2006-06-09 21:05         ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-06-09 21:46           ` Jon Smirl
2006-06-10  1:23         ` Martin Langhoff
2006-06-10  1:14   ` Martin Langhoff
2006-06-10  1:33     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-06-10  1:43       ` Linus Torvalds
2006-06-10  1:48         ` Jon Smirl
2006-06-10  1:59           ` Linus Torvalds
2006-06-10  2:21             ` Jon Smirl
2006-06-10  2:34               ` Carl Worth
2006-06-10  3:08                 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-06-10  8:21                   ` Jakub Narebski
2006-06-10  9:00                     ` Junio C Hamano
2006-06-10  8:36                   ` Rogan Dawes
2006-06-10  9:08                     ` Junio C Hamano
2006-06-10 14:47                       ` Rogan Dawes
2006-06-10 14:58                         ` Jakub Narebski
2006-06-10 15:14                         ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-06-10 17:53                     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-06-10 18:02                       ` Jon Smirl
2006-06-10 18:36                       ` Rogan Dawes
2006-06-10  3:01               ` Linus Torvalds
2006-06-10  2:30             ` Jon Smirl
2006-06-10  3:41             ` Martin Langhoff
2006-06-10  3:55               ` Junio C Hamano
2006-06-10  4:02               ` Linus Torvalds
2006-06-10  4:11                 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-06-10  6:02                   ` Jon Smirl
2006-06-10  6:15                     ` Junio C Hamano
2006-06-10 15:44                       ` Jon Smirl
2006-06-10 16:15                         ` Timo Hirvonen
2006-06-10 18:37                         ` Petr Baudis
2006-06-10 18:55                         ` Lars Johannsen
2006-06-11 22:00       ` Nicolas Pitre
2006-06-18 19:26         ` Linus Torvalds
2006-06-18 21:40           ` Martin Langhoff
2006-06-18 22:36             ` Linus Torvalds
2006-06-18 22:51               ` Broken PPC sha1.. (Re: Figured out how to get Mozilla into git) Linus Torvalds
2006-06-18 23:25                 ` [PATCH] Fix PPC SHA1 routine for large input buffers Paul Mackerras
2006-06-19  5:02                   ` Linus Torvalds
2006-06-09  3:12 ` Figured out how to get Mozilla into git Pavel Roskin

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