It took me a long time to notice the rider on the pack.threads
configuration option that it would multiple the memory consumption by
the number of CPUs in the machine. This patch puts the memory consumption
warning against the memory option that I was using to try to stop git-pack
running out of RAM.
Signed-off-by: Robert de Bath <rdeb...@tvisiontech.co.uk>
---
Documentation/config.txt | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index c55c22a..6384038 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -1828,7 +1828,10 @@ pack.depth::
pack.windowMemory::
The window memory size limit used by linkgit:git-pack-objects[1]
- when no limit is given on the command line. The value can be
+ when no limit is given on the command line. This limit may be
+ allocated individually by each thread doing delta compression
+ so the total memory allocated by linkgit:git-pack-objects[1] can
+ be this multiplied by the number of threads. The value can be
suffixed with "k", "m", or "g". Defaults to 0, meaning no
limit.
--
1.7.10.4
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