From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jens Axboe Subject: Re: auto gc again Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:24:21 +0100 Message-ID: <20080318182421.GI17940@kernel.dk> References: <20080318180118.GC17940@kernel.dk> <20080318181948.GH17940@kernel.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Linus Torvalds X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Mar 19 20:45:15 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jc4CZ-0002JK-Rk for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:43:56 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757927AbYCSTmL (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:42:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757905AbYCSTmI (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:42:08 -0400 Received: from brick.kernel.dk ([87.55.233.238]:26261 "EHLO kernel.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755319AbYCSTmC (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:42:02 -0400 Received: by kernel.dk (Postfix, from userid 51) id 55A86258778; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:41:05 +0100 (CET) Received: by kernel.dk (Postfix, from userid 500) id A53C7258780; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:24:21 +0100 (CET) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080318181948.GH17940@kernel.dk> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tue, Mar 18 2008, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Tue, Mar 18 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Jens Axboe wrote: > > > > > > Could we please PLEASE kill this auto gc thing? I've complained about > > > this in the past and disabled it through the gc.auto config entry, > > > however now git seems to be happily auto running gc even with gc.auto=0. > > > So there's probably some new magic I need to know. > > > > Do you do something odd with your repositories? I don't even touch autogc > > on my systems, but I have never had that thing trigger, even when I apply > > series of patches from Andrew with hundreds of messages. > > Not to my knowledge, I haven't changed anything in my setup or behaviour > in ages. > > > So what is it that you do to even get this behaviour in the first place? > > The last few times it was: > > $ git checkout master > $ git branch some-test-branch > $ git checkout some-test-branch > $ git pull . some-devel-branch axboe@carl:~/git/linux-2.6-block> git count-objects 901 objects, 6448 kilobytes xboe@carl:~/git/linux-2.6-block> git pull remote: Counting objects: 320, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (43/43), done. remote: Total 214 (delta 171), reused 214 (delta 171) Receiving objects: 100% (214/214), 31.78 KiB, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (171/171), completed with 68 local objects. >From ssh://git.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block bde4f8f..f920bb6 master -> origin/master Updating bde4f8f..f920bb6 Fast forward Auto packing your repository for optimum performance. You may also run "git gc" manually. See "git help gc" for more information. ^C So 901 objects, pulled 68 objects. And auto gc kicks in. WTF? The git before was from probably a week ago, this above run was done with git just updated. git version 1.5.5.rc0.6.gdeda -- Jens Axboe