From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bzr is dying; Emacs needs to move Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2014 10:57:45 +0100 Message-ID: <8761q175gm.fsf@igel.home> References: <20140102095347.6834E381D0C@snark.thyrsus.com> <87k3eisirv.fsf@zigzag.favinet> <87bnzurpcq.fsf@zigzag.favinet> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1388743074 23358 80.91.229.3 (3 Jan 2014 09:57:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 09:57:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: James Cloos Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 03 10:58:01 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Vz1Vw-0004gs-GQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 10:58:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48863 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vz1Vw-0005G7-5y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 04:58:00 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49540) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vz1Vp-0005Fy-IH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 04:57:58 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vz1Vk-00087b-Nl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 04:57:53 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.9]:40585) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vz1Vk-00087W-H0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Jan 2014 04:57:48 -0500 Original-Received: from frontend1.mail.m-online.net (unknown [192.168.8.180]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3dwhPR26cmz4KKF7; Fri, 3 Jan 2014 10:57:47 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (dynscan1.mnet-online.de [192.168.6.68]) by mail.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3dwhPR1zQ3zbbcv; Fri, 3 Jan 2014 10:57:47 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mnet-online.de Original-Received: from mail.mnet-online.de ([192.168.8.180]) by localhost (dynscan1.mail.m-online.net [192.168.6.68]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 0SwyIDW7V5Hq; Fri, 3 Jan 2014 10:57:46 +0100 (CET) X-Auth-Info: 1S9D4OOw/k6aQPd8MGHwfEvKfv1NBnnv90KWaCsnN30= Original-Received: from igel.home (ppp-88-217-47-115.dynamic.mnet-online.de [88.217.47.115]) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTPA; Fri, 3 Jan 2014 10:57:46 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by igel.home (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E690C2C0554; Fri, 3 Jan 2014 10:57:45 +0100 (CET) X-Yow: Where's my SOCIAL WORKER? In-Reply-To: (James Cloos's message of "Thu, 02 Jan 2014 18:57:03 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x X-Received-From: 212.18.0.9 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:167134 Archived-At: James Cloos writes: >>>>>> "TN" == Thien-Thi Nguyen writes: > > TN> Do you happen to know the maximum transient memory usage for > TN> "git gc --aggressive"? > > I just tried it in a clone of git://git.savannah.gnu.org/emacs, > which should be similar. > > Before the gc, .git/objects used about 1 Gig of disk space, per du(1). > > Git gc --aggressive allocated just over 5 (binary) Gig of VM, and > dirtied most of it, to compress 733141 objects, according to top(1). You should not need --aggresssive if you start with a repository that is already partly packed. It won't give you the optimal packing, but it shouldn't differ by much. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."