1 Girocco "job daemon" - it can either be periodically ran from crontab
2 (see jobs/README, fine for smaller sites) or running standalone;
3 it does not communicate with the outer world and simply periodically
4 performs various house-keeping tasks - repacking any repositories
5 and updating mirrored repositories.
7 See the docs/technical/gc.txt and docs/technical/gc-mini.txt files
8 for more information on how garbage collection is performed.