On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 00:22:09 -0500 (EST)
Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:

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> Well, I don't think so.  Anyway, with the above pack.windowMemory 
> setting, the window probably gets shrinked if those big objects are all 
> to be found in the same window.  So that would be the setting to 
> increase if you have lots of ram.

Sounds like it would be worthwhile then for Jan to try on that 8G machine
and see what comes out the other end.

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> Finding out what those huge objects are, and if they actually need to be 
> there, would be a good thing to do to reduce any repository size.

Okay, i've sent the sha1's of the top 500 to Jan for inspection.  It appears
that many of the largest objects are automatically generated i18n files that
could be regenerated from source files when needed rather than being checked
in themselves; but that's for the OO folks to decide.

Thanks,
Sean
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