From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
To: Peter Harris <git@peter.is-a-geek.org>
Cc: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git and multiple cores
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 16:02:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090602230205.GL30527@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <eaa105840906021555w22e62341l61f250455cf8c23b@mail.gmail.com>
Peter Harris <git@peter.is-a-geek.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Chris Friesen wrote:
> >
> > I'm using git 1.6.1.3 and it seems to be limited to a single core.
> > Given that I've seen cases where the cpu has been basically pinned for
> > minutes on end (initial clone of a repository, for instance) has there
> > been any discussion of taking advantage of multiple cores?
>
> Sounds like you're mostly concerned about packing.
>
> The good news is, your version of git already has a threaded packer.
> You just need to enable it. See "pack.threads" in "git help config".
>
> 1.6.2 and newer use multiple threads by default.
True, but he was talking about initial clone, which on the client
side is git-index-pack. Which is not threaded.
--
Shawn.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-02 23:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-02 22:40 git and multiple cores Chris Friesen
2009-06-02 22:55 ` Peter Harris
2009-06-02 23:02 ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]
2009-06-02 23:12 ` Peter Harris
2009-06-02 23:29 ` Chris Friesen
2009-06-02 23:54 ` Nicolas Pitre
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