gitolite server hang

[Michel Bourget]

We recently had our main gitolite server going unresponsive. It was essentially swapping heavily. The OM killer even started to kick as well. This is a VM: 1Gb memory, 2 CPUs. Of course, wait for IO was very high but on swap partition, not the repo partition. Load was 70. It was not going below 25, anyway too high. Oh, it is also sles11sp2 distro and also running gitweb. No git daemon is running. Network was sane. A reboot. A reboot fixed the issue without the load going high again. Gitolite 3.6.1 ...

Questions:
- could that be the "repack" issue causing this as explained here ? I could not tell with "ps"...
http://gitolite.com/server-sizing.html
- anyone already experienced this ? If so, probable solutions ?
- any clues ? :)

Thanks in advance

[Sitaram Chamarty]

I suspect either that or this[1] or a combination...

I've had issues like this before, and it's always been a whole bunch of
tmp files hanging around from past failures, and each push seems to
cause more problems, or whatever.

I'm not sure if anything came of that thread though...

[1]: http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/gc-does-not-clean-up-after-itself-when-not-enough-disk-space-td7578673.html#a7578727