From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Keith Packard Subject: Re: Make "git clone" less of a deathly quiet experience Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 11:10:29 -0800 Message-ID: <1139685031.4183.31.camel@evo.keithp.com> References: <7vwtg2o37c.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-RjT1XOfeM6XyBQDVQbRT" Cc: keithp@keithp.com, Junio C Hamano , Git Mailing List , Petr Baudis X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Feb 11 20:10:54 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F808z-00073r-NE for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 11 Feb 2006 20:10:54 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964776AbWBKTKu (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Feb 2006 14:10:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964777AbWBKTKu (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Feb 2006 14:10:50 -0500 Received: from home.keithp.com ([63.227.221.253]:8202 "EHLO keithp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964776AbWBKTKu (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Feb 2006 14:10:50 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by keithp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38B4B130023; Sat, 11 Feb 2006 11:10:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from keithp.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (keithp.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 07325-03; Sat, 11 Feb 2006 11:10:48 -0800 (PST) Received: by keithp.com (Postfix, from userid 1033) id 9E60113001F; Sat, 11 Feb 2006 11:10:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from evo.keithp.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by keithp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C2E114001; Sat, 11 Feb 2006 11:10:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from keithp by evo.keithp.com with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1F808f-0004ZR-CF; Sat, 11 Feb 2006 11:10:33 -0800 To: Linus Torvalds In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.2.1 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: --=-RjT1XOfeM6XyBQDVQbRT Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2006-02-11 at 09:45 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > More importantly, it really wouldn't have helped that much in this=20 > situation. At least for me, the network is 90% of the problem, the=20 > pack-file generation is at most 10%. So cached packfiles really only=20 > matter for server-side problems (high CPU load, or lack of memory, or=20 > 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. =20 --=20 keith.packard@intel.com --=-RjT1XOfeM6XyBQDVQbRT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBD7jalQp8BWwlsTdMRAmNsAKDmFrUxKX/HD7Hjz+60z2bjU/i8BwCg0KFP KSWHMC1lyTeufP9XfUMQCDc= =OZYk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-RjT1XOfeM6XyBQDVQbRT--