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| author |  Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> | 2007-01-04 22:28:08 -0500 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2007-01-06 10:34:56 -0800 |
| commit | 22bac0ea528fd419cb833cab5de79a36fad91524 (patch) | |
| tree | 4a26b03c0af37b7a2a9dd1337944c813d0a98f61 /Documentation/config.txt | |
| parent | Update packedGit config option documentation. (diff) | |
| download | tgif-22bac0ea528fd419cb833cab5de79a36fad91524.tar.xz | |
Increase packedGit{Limit,WindowSize} on 64 bit systems.
If we have a 64 bit address space we can easily afford to commit
a larger amount of virtual address space to pack file access.
So on these platforms we should increase the default settings of
core.packedGit{Limit,WindowSize} to something that will better
handle very large projects.
Thanks to Andy Whitcroft for pointing out that we can safely
increase these defaults on such systems.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/config.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 16 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 6c83829018..b24d9dff62 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -125,9 +125,12 @@ core.packedGitWindowSize:: more quickly. Smaller window sizes will negatively affect performance due to increased calls to the operating system's memory manager, but may improve performance when accessing - a large number of large pack files. Default is 32 MiB, - which should be reasonable for all users/operating systems. - You probably do not need to adjust this value. + a large number of large pack files. ++ +Default is 1 MiB if NO_MMAP was set at compile time, otherwise 32 +MiB on 32 bit platforms and 1 GiB on 64 bit platforms. This should +be reasonable for all users/operating systems. You probably do +not need to adjust this value. + Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported. @@ -136,9 +139,10 @@ core.packedGitLimit:: from pack files. If Git needs to access more than this many bytes at once to complete an operation it will unmap existing regions to reclaim virtual address space within the process. - Default is 256 MiB, which should be reasonable for all - users/operating systems, except on the largest projects. - You probably do not need to adjust this value. ++ +Default is 256 MiB on 32 bit platforms and 8 GiB on 64 bit platforms. +This should be reasonable for all users/operating systems, except on +the largest projects. You probably do not need to adjust this value. + Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported. |