From: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: keithp@keithp.com, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: Make "git clone" less of a deathly quiet experience
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 11:10:29 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1139685031.4183.31.camel@evo.keithp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0602110943170.3691@g5.osdl.org>
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On Sat, 2006-02-11 at 09:45 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> More importantly, it really wouldn't have helped that much in this
> situation. At least for me, the network is 90% of the problem, the
> pack-file generation is at most 10%. So cached packfiles really only
> matter for server-side problems (high CPU load, or lack of memory, or
> heavy disk activity).
I'd like to see git use less CPU than CVS does on my distribution host;
some mechanism for re-using either existing or cached packs would help a
whole lot with that. The alternative is to see people switch to rsync
instead, which seems like a far worse idea.
--
keith.packard@intel.com
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-11 19:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-11 4:31 Make "git clone" less of a deathly quiet experience Linus Torvalds
2006-02-11 4:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-11 5:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-11 17:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-11 5:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-11 7:35 ` Craig Schlenter
2006-02-11 8:44 ` Radoslaw Szkodzinski
2006-02-11 13:05 ` Petr Baudis
2006-02-11 13:15 ` Radoslaw Szkodzinski
2006-02-11 13:33 ` Petr Baudis
2006-02-11 13:41 ` Petr Baudis
2006-02-11 17:24 ` Alex Riesen
2006-02-11 17:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-11 19:10 ` Keith Packard [this message]
2006-02-12 3:43 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-02-12 4:11 ` Keith Packard
2006-02-12 11:02 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-02-12 21:04 ` Keith Packard
2006-02-16 6:56 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-02-16 7:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-13 2:06 ` Martin Langhoff
2006-02-13 3:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-02-11 18:39 ` Alex Riesen
2006-02-11 19:04 ` Linus Torvalds
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