Lets insert the whole installed FreeBSD14 distribution and diff or record. They will eat all memory.

Can you make them lighter ?

cd /
piju init 
pijul add -r .
# FAST
pijul ls | wc -l
187017
### any of these command would be killed by OOM:
# pijul record -am.
# pijul diff
# pijul diff -s
# pijul diff -su

FreeBSD14 host.

Linux kernel 5.10.214 on 71k sources file recorded fast on 2GB RAM machine.

Kernel 6.6.24 on 87k files recorded without swap.

Kernel 6.8.3 swapped on 83k files. https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/linux-6.8.3.tar.xz

Alpine Linux 3.19 host:

Kernel 6.8.3 recorded fast but swapped several seconds.

Alpine Linux can not record whole distribution on 276k files on 2GB RAM. Killed by OOM.

I can imagine why pijul needs huge (?) memory for recording, but why it needs the same amount of RAM for diff -su ?

Easier way how to get huge (5+GB) memory run:

cd
mkdir p1
cd p1
cp -Rp ../pijul .
rm pijul/.ignore
pijul add -r .
pijul ls | wc -l
15753

### 
# pijul rec -am.
# pijul diff 
# pijul diff -su

If i checked correctly where is no memory leak.

I imagine how big user with big mono repo can not work.