Re: Multiple threads of compression

2012-11-26 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Brandon Casey dixit: The number of threads that pack uses can be configured in the global or system gitconfig file by setting pack.threads. […] The other setting you should probably look at is pack.windowMemory which should help you control the amount of memory git uses while packing. Also look

Multiple threads of compression

2012-11-25 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Hi, I’m asking here informally first, because my information relates to a quite old version (the one from lenny-backports). A tl;dr is at the end. On a multi-core machine, the garbage collection of git, as well as pack compression on the server side when someone clones a repository remotely, the