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-rw-r--r--Documentation/config.txt16
-rw-r--r--git-compat-util.h10
2 files changed, 18 insertions, 8 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.
diff --git a/git-compat-util.h b/git-compat-util.h
index f243b86d32..55456da37c 100644
--- a/git-compat-util.h
+++ b/git-compat-util.h
@@ -97,11 +97,17 @@ extern int git_munmap(void *start, size_t length);
#else /* NO_MMAP */
#include <sys/mman.h>
-#define DEFAULT_PACKED_GIT_WINDOW_SIZE (32 * 1024 * 1024)
+#define DEFAULT_PACKED_GIT_WINDOW_SIZE \
+ (sizeof(void*) >= 8 \
+ ? 1 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 \
+ : 32 * 1024 * 1024)
#endif /* NO_MMAP */
-#define DEFAULT_PACKED_GIT_LIMIT (256 * 1024 * 1024)
+#define DEFAULT_PACKED_GIT_LIMIT \
+ (sizeof(void*) >= 8 \
+ ? 8 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 \
+ : 256 * 1024 * 1024)
#ifdef NO_SETENV
#define setenv gitsetenv