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From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Cc: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 'git gc --aggressive' effectively unusable
Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2010 09:14:07 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87oci0m5v4.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201004040123.06877.elendil@planet.nl> (Frans Pop's message of "Sun, 4 Apr 2010 01:23:04 +0200")

Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> writes:
>> > 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?

Are you sure it doesn't subsequently speed up again?

-Miles

-- 
Idiot, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human
affairs has always been dominant and controlling.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-04-04  0:14 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
2010-04-03 23:42     ` Michael Witten
2010-04-04  0:14     ` Miles Bader [this message]
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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