Is there a way to limit the amount of memory that "git gc" uses?

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sam2themax picture sam2themax · Jun 22, 2010 · Viewed 22.4k times · Source

I'm hosting a git repo on a shared host. My repo necessarily has a couple of very large files in it, and every time I try to run "git gc" on the repo now, my process gets killed by the shared hosting provider for using too much memory. Is there a way to limit the amount of memory that git gc can consume? My hope would be that it can trade memory usage for speed and just take a little longer to do its work.

Answer

hopeithelps picture hopeithelps · Jan 6, 2012

I used instructions from this link. Same idea as Charles Baileys suggested.

A copy of the commands is here:

git config --global pack.windowMemory "100m"
git config --global pack.packSizeLimit "100m"
git config --global pack.threads "1"

This worked for me on hostgator with shared hosting account.

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