[[!comment format=mdwn
 username="http://joeyh.name/"
 ip="209.250.56.87"
 subject="comment 4"
 date="2013-12-12T20:14:01Z"
 content="""
You mentioned something about high memory usage when copying. How much memory are we talking about?

Have you run `git annex forget` in this repository before? It kind of sounds like you have, and it might be possible that it's repeatedly trying to forget old history for some reason.
"""]]
