From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johan Herland Subject: Re: git gc and kernel.org Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:54:48 +0200 Message-ID: <200910201054.48315.johan@herland.net> References: <4ADD6026.8070203@zytor.com> <7veioyqzeo.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" , ftpadmin@kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Oct 20 10:55:10 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N0AUa-0000P9-Hy for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:54:56 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751352AbZJTIyr (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:54:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751335AbZJTIyr (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:54:47 -0400 Received: from smtp.getmail.no ([84.208.15.66]:45671 "EHLO get-mta-out02.get.basefarm.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751345AbZJTIyq (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:54:46 -0400 Received: from smtp.getmail.no ([10.5.16.4]) by get-mta-out02.get.basefarm.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7.0-0.04 64bit (built Jun 20 2008)) with ESMTP id <0KRT0091T23DNK20@get-mta-out02.get.basefarm.net> for git@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:54:49 +0200 (MEST) Received: from alpha.localnet ([84.215.102.95]) by get-mta-in02.get.basefarm.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7.0-0.04 64bit (built Jun 20 2008)) with ESMTP id <0KRT009JI23CP920@get-mta-in02.get.basefarm.net> for git@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:54:49 +0200 (MEST) X-PMX-Version: 5.5.3.366731, Antispam-Engine: 2.7.0.366912, Antispam-Data: 2009.10.20.83616 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/2.6.30-ARCH; KDE/4.3.2; x86_64; ; ) In-reply-to: <7veioyqzeo.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tuesday 20 October 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote: > At one point, update-server-info used to compute a lot more than what we > currently compute and it made some sense to oppose against it on > performance ground. > > But these days it only lists the refs and packs and does nothing else; > the performance impact should be immeasurable and it adds only two files > to the repository. It cannot be a big deal, unless you oppose to http > transport on a non-technical ground. FYI, update-server-info takes ~0.7 seconds in a repo with one pack and ~50000 refs, so I guess it's acceptable to enable it by default, even in those kinds of repos. ...Johan -- Johan Herland, www.herland.net