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From: Ben Tebulin <tebulin@googlemail•com>
To: Thomas Rast <trast@inf•ethz.ch>
Cc: Ben Tebulin <tebulin@googlemail•com>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>,
	git@vger•kernel.org, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp•fr>,
	Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@googlemail•com>
Subject: Re: Reproducible, corrupt packfile after fresh git-svn checkout message
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 11:47:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <520B5221.3040308@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877gfok59m.fsf@linux-k42r.v.cablecom.net>


> My best theory so far:
> malloc()/free() actually use mmap()/munmap() for large allocations.
> mallopt(3) tells me that [...]

Many things I don't grab at first go :-)

Last night I did a long git-bisect of the kernel and was able to
pinpoint a change in the Linux memory management as cause (see my
pre-prepared email I just sent).

Would that fit into your theory?

> You could try to gather some data on this by  [...]
Before I dive into that maybe you could throw a quick look at the
causing Kernel change (which reading from the words _could_ be related)
if this fits into the picture?

If yes, I'm happy to try to assist you in further pinning this issue down!

  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-14  9:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <52037F47.5010302@exxcellent.de>
     [not found] ` <52037F84.9060006@exxcellent.de>
2013-08-08 11:56   ` Reproducible, corrupt packfile after fresh gitml.jexpert
2013-08-08 12:13     ` Thomas Rast
2013-08-08 12:23       ` Reproducible, corrupt packfile after fresh git-svn checkout gitml.jexpert
2013-08-08 12:31         ` Thomas Rast
2013-08-08 13:12           ` Reproducible, corrupt packfile after fresh git-svn checkout message 3 of 20) gitml.jexpert
2013-08-08 13:18             ` Matthieu Moy
2013-08-08 13:27               ` Reproducible, corrupt packfile after fresh git-svn checkout message gitml.jexpert
2013-08-08 13:34                 ` Matthieu Moy
2013-08-08 13:43                   ` Reproducible, corrupt packfile after fresh git-svn checkout message (gitml: message 5 of 20) gitml.jexpert
2013-08-08 14:20                     ` Thomas Rast
2013-08-08 14:53                       ` Reproducible, corrupt packfile after fresh git-svn checkout message (gitml: message 5 of 20) (gitml: message 6 " Ben Tebulin
2013-08-08 15:28                         ` Thomas Rast
2013-08-08 16:36                           ` Reproducible, corrupt packfile after fresh git-svn checkout message Ben Tebulin
2013-08-08 16:48                             ` Matthieu Moy
2013-08-08 17:38                           ` Reproducible, corrupt packfile after fresh git-svn checkout message (gitml: message 5 of 20) (gitml: message 6 of 20) Junio C Hamano
2013-08-09 12:27                             ` Reproducible, corrupt packfile after fresh git-svn checkout message Ben Tebulin
2013-08-09 12:54                               ` Stefan Beller
2013-08-14  9:29                                 ` Reproducible, corrupt packfile after fresh git-svn checkouts - IDENTIFIED Ben Tebulin
2013-08-14  9:09                               ` Reproducible, corrupt packfile after fresh git-svn checkout message Thomas Rast
2013-08-14  9:47                                 ` Ben Tebulin [this message]
2013-08-15  9:32                                 ` Ben Tebulin
2013-08-15 14:46                                   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-08-08 13:20             ` Reproducible, corrupt packfile after fresh git-svn checkout message 3 of 20) Thomas Rast
2013-08-08 12:38         ` Reproducible, corrupt packfile after fresh git-svn checkout Matthieu Moy
2013-08-08 12:41         ` Stefan Beller
2013-08-08 12:18     ` Reproducible, corrupt packfile after fresh Stefan Beller

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