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From: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
To: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 'git gc --aggressive' effectively unusable
Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 01:23:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201004040123.06877.elendil@planet.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p2gb4087cc51004031433xc57e52bbq733d1d3c5f37f238@mail.gmail.com>

On Saturday 03 April 2010, Michael Witten wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 16:05, Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> wrote:
> > I haven't had the patience to let it finish
>
> There's your problem.

Yes, I had seen that. But there's a difference between taking much more 
time and slowing down to such an extend that it never finishes.

I've tried it today on my linux-2.6 repo as well and the same thing 
happened. At first the progress is not fast but reasonable. When it gets 
to about 45% percent it starts slowing down a lot: from ~1500 objects per 
update of the counters to ~300 objects per update. And who knows what the 
progress is going to be when it reaches 70% or 90%: 10 per update?

With a total of over 2 milion objects in the repository such a low speed is 
simply not going to work, ever. So I maintain that it is effectively 
unusable.

Cheers,
FJP

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-04-03 23:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-02 22:05 'git gc --aggressive' effectively unusable Frans Pop
2010-04-02 22:12 ` Frans Pop
2010-04-03 21:16 ` Frans Pop
2010-04-03 21:33 ` Michael Witten
2010-04-03 21:42   ` Michael Witten
2010-04-03 23:23   ` Frans Pop [this message]
2010-04-03 23:42     ` Michael Witten
2010-04-04  0:14     ` Miles Bader
2010-04-04 14:50       ` Michael Poole
2010-04-04 20:38         ` Jeff King
2010-04-04 21:49           ` Jeff King
2010-04-05 21:07             ` Nicolas Pitre
2010-04-04  4:27     ` Mike Galbraith

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