[[!comment format=mdwn username="http://joeyh.name/" ip="209.250.56.146" subject="comment 5" date="2014-03-05T16:53:33Z" content=""" You have an older version of git, which does not support --no-dangling. git-annex will detect that, and omit the option. This does make it more likely that git fsck is outputing a ton of information, so I continue to think that's the most likely cause of the memory use. Please verify with: git fsck --no-reflogs |wc """]]