From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ferry Huberts Subject: Re: Inexplicably deteriorating performance of Git repositories on Windows Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 22:49:39 +0100 Message-ID: <4CEC36F3.5020908@hupie.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Git ML To: Dun Peal X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Nov 23 22:49:50 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PL0kH-0003nI-SI for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 22:49:50 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751540Ab0KWVto (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:49:44 -0500 Received: from hupie.xs4all.nl ([82.95.241.251]:47817 "EHLO mail.internal.Hupie.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750798Ab0KWVtn (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:49:43 -0500 Received: from paul.internal.hupie.com (paul.internal.Hupie.com [192.168.40.1]) by mail.internal.Hupie.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF05658C993; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 22:49:39 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101103 Fedora/1.0-0.33.b2pre.fc14 Thunderbird/3.1.6 In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Are your users using the 'show my status in the prompt' feature? If so, then disable all but showing the current branch, it makes a whole lot of difference :-) On 11/23/2010 08:08 PM, Dun Peal wrote: > Hey, > > We have a bunch of Windows users, unfortunately, and they're using the > latest msysGit release (Git-1.7.3.1-preview20101002). > > An interesting issue we've noticed is that the Time To Complete of > their common operations start deteriorating inexplicably, and > severely, some time after the clone. > > For instance, immediately after a clone, `git status` takes about > 5-6s. Which is slow compared to Linux (consistent 1-2s), but still > usable (it's a BIG repo). > > However, after a reboot (of all things), `git status` latency > skyrockets to 14-15s, making the repo unusable. > > Any idea what's going on? We just recently switched from SVN, and > those users are getting really frustrated. BTW, the only real > alternative I'm aware of, Cygwin's git, is even slower. > > Thanks, D > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html grtz -- Ferry Huberts