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On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 01:51:34PM -0800, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> - Robin has commented that he doesn't know what kind of server-side |
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> resources are required. I've talked to a number of git admins |
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> (kernel.org, fedora, freedesktop.org, gnome), and they have all said the |
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> hardware requirements for git are negligible. They don't have any |
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> resource on their servers that's being used up. It's gitweb that is |
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> somewhat resource-intensive. |
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A specific comment on this (I know I've been away lately, I'm busy |
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getting back to things now that I've moved house). Git devours RAM. |
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During pull actions, if the pull triggers a build of a custom pack on |
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the server, it can snowball to kill the box with IO load due to swap and |
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later OOM. |
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The git-upload-pack that runs on the server side when you do a 'git |
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clone ...' at the moment for the gentoo-x86.git repo exceeds 1GB of RAM |
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after 10 minutes of running. The box only has 2GB of RAM, so it hits |
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swap quickly, and things go downhill very fast from there. |
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Robin Hugh Johnson |
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Gentoo Linux Developer & Infra Guy |
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E-Mail : robbat2@g.o |
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