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authorLibravatar Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>2006-12-23 02:33:35 -0500
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2006-12-29 11:36:44 -0800
commit77ccc5bbd1bd403abd5f552be7210073bea856a6 (patch)
tree33d02d246bb50b1d91a15987e0466da21933ac36 /Documentation
parentReplace unpack_entry_gently with unpack_entry. (diff)
downloadtgif-77ccc5bbd1bd403abd5f552be7210073bea856a6.tar.xz
Introduce new config option for mmap limit.
Rather than hardcoding the maximum number of bytes which can be mmapped from pack files we should make this value configurable, allowing the end user to increase or decrease this limit on a per-repository basis depending on the size of the repository and the capabilities of their operating system. In general users should not need to manually tune such a low-level setting within the core code, but being able to artifically limit the number of bytes which we can mmap at once from pack files will make it easier to craft test cases for the new mmap sliding window implementation. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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@@ -118,6 +118,15 @@ core.legacyheaders::
database directly (where the "http://" and "rsync://" protocols
count as direct access).
+core.packedGitLimit::
+ Maximum number of bytes to map simultaneously into memory
+ 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 largest Git projects.
+ You probably do not need to adjust this value.
+
alias.*::
Command aliases for the gitlink:git[1] command wrapper - e.g.
after defining "alias.last = cat-file commit HEAD", the invocation