cd /srv/gitosis/repositories/linux-2.6.git
sudo git gc --aggressive
Counting objects: 1763026, done.
Delta compression using up to 2 threads.
fatal: unable to create thread: Resource temporarily unavailable
error: failed to run repack


I tried `sudo git gc` alone and it gets up to about 95% memory usage and
then finishes without crashing.
But running `git fetch` on the client still causes the server to crash by
running out of memory.

AJ ONeal

On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 10:46 PM, Dave Smith <[email protected]> wrote:

>  I assume you already ran "git gc"?
>
> --Dave
>
>
> On 12/08/2010 12:55 PM, AJ ONeal wrote:
>
> I've got a VPS with 512mb RAM (and no swap possible).
>
> I'm using gitosis to host a fork of the kernel.
>
> How can I tell git to be more conservative about memory usage?
>
> Since my last push I can no longer pull because it runs out of memory.
> Shouldn't 512mb be enough? Really now...
>
> AJ ONeal
>
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