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From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Unresolved issues #2 (shallow clone again)
Date: Sun, 7 May 2006 20:33:38 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060508003338.GB17138@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060507075631.GA24423@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 03:56:31AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 06:08:03PM +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> 
> > >> And in any case commits and trees are lightweight and compress well...
> > >Commit maybe, but is this based on a hard fact?
> > No hard facts here :( but I think it's reasonable to assume that the
> > trees delta/compress reasonably well, as a given commit will change
> > just a few entries in each tree.
> 
> A few hard facts (using Linus' linux-2.6 tree):
>   - original packsize: 120996 kilobytes
>   - unpacked: 233338 objects, 1417476 kilobytes
>     This is an 11.7:1 compression ratio (of course, much of this is
>     wasted space from the 4k block size in the filesystem)

If there are 233338 objects, then the average wasted space due to
internal fragmentation is 233338 * 2k, or 466676 kilobytes, or only
36% of the wasted space.  Most of the savings is probably coming from
the compression and delta packing.

						- Ted

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-05-08  0:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 81+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-14  9:31 Recent unresolved issues Junio C Hamano
2006-04-14 16:02 ` Petr Baudis
     [not found] ` <20060414151030.11c64730.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-04-14 19:10   ` sean
2006-04-14 19:24 ` Petr Baudis
2006-04-14 22:56 ` Recent unresolved issues: shallow clone Carl Worth
2006-04-15  0:17   ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-04-15  0:25   ` Junio C Hamano
2006-04-15  2:11     ` Junio C Hamano
2006-04-14 23:52 ` Recent unresolved issues Linus Torvalds
2006-04-15  0:19   ` Linus Torvalds
2006-04-15  0:39     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-04-15  0:38   ` Junio C Hamano
2006-04-15  0:49     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-04-15  0:56       ` Linus Torvalds
2006-04-15  1:09         ` Linus Torvalds
2006-04-15  2:22           ` Junio C Hamano
2006-04-15  6:18         ` Junio C Hamano
2006-04-15  8:57           ` Junio C Hamano
2006-04-15 11:46             ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-04-15 16:59             ` Linus Torvalds
2006-04-15 17:17               ` Linus Torvalds
2006-04-16  8:14                 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-04-15  1:35       ` Junio C Hamano
2006-04-15  4:09         ` Linus Torvalds
2006-04-15  5:06           ` Junio C Hamano
2006-05-04  8:15 ` Unresolved issues #2 Junio C Hamano
2006-05-04  8:32   ` Jakub Narebski
2006-05-04  9:14     ` Junio C Hamano
2006-05-04  9:26       ` Jakub Narebski
2006-05-04  9:58   ` Petr Baudis
2006-05-04 15:45     ` Pavel Roskin
2006-05-04 17:01   ` Unresolved issues #2 (shallow clone again) Carl Worth
2006-05-05  0:25     ` Junio C Hamano
2006-05-05  5:17       ` Martin Langhoff
2006-05-05  5:23         ` Carl Worth
2006-05-05  5:48           ` Jakub Narebski
2006-05-05 15:10       ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-05 15:18         ` Jakub Narebski
2006-05-05 15:59           ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-06  6:23             ` Martin Langhoff
2006-05-06  7:10               ` Junio C Hamano
2006-05-07  6:08                 ` Martin Langhoff
2006-05-07  7:56                   ` Jeff King
2006-05-07 15:27                     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-08  4:24                       ` Jeff King
2006-05-08 15:32                         ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-08  0:33                     ` Theodore Tso [this message]
2006-05-08  0:50                       ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-08  1:26                         ` Theodore Tso
2006-05-08  2:04                           ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-08  2:24                             ` Theodore Tso
2006-05-08  2:42                               ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-07  8:01                   ` Sergey Vlasov
2006-05-07 23:27                     ` Martin Langhoff
2006-05-07 23:35                       ` Junio C Hamano
2006-05-07 23:44                         ` Martin Langhoff
2006-05-05 15:31         ` Carl Worth
2006-05-07 13:30       ` Jakub Narebski
2006-05-08  2:54         ` Junio C Hamano
2006-05-08  4:02           ` Jakub Narebski
2006-05-08  4:24           ` Jakub Narebski
2006-05-04 20:41   ` Unresolved issues #2 Daniel Barkalow
2006-05-04 21:33     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-06  5:58       ` Junio C Hamano
2006-05-06 15:26         ` Linus Torvalds
     [not found]           ` <20060506113549.48e553d1.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-05-06 15:35             ` sean
2006-05-06 16:30               ` Linus Torvalds
     [not found]                 ` <20060506125323.544c35db.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-05-06 16:53                   ` sean
2006-05-06 17:20                     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-06 21:16                       ` Junio C Hamano
2006-05-06 21:33                         ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-05-06 21:51                           ` Linus Torvalds
2006-05-07  9:39                           ` Junio C Hamano
2006-05-07  9:42                             ` Junio C Hamano
2006-05-07 11:31                             ` Johannes Schindelin
2006-05-07 11:38                             ` Jakub Narebski
2006-05-08  2:51                               ` Junio C Hamano
2006-05-07  0:41                         ` Jakub Narebski
2006-05-09 11:40   ` David Woodhouse
2006-05-09 11:53     ` Bertrand Jacquin
2006-05-09 13:09     ` Nicolas Pitre

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