Re: pack operation is thrashing my server

["Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com>]

On 9/8/08, Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Sep 2008, Jon Smirl wrote:
>
>  > On 9/7/08, Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:
>
> > > Please have a look at commit eac12e2d4d7f.  This fix improved things for
>  > >  my gcc repack tests.
>  >
>  > Do you have any test numbers for something like a 2000 delta chain
>  > before and after?
>
>
> What kind of number do you want?

See if repacking a 2000 chain delta still takes 30 minutes. It can be
any 2000 chain delta.

>  Before that change I wasn't able to repack an already tightly packed
>  (about 340MB) gcc repository on my machine while the same but sparsely
>  packed (3GB or so) repository could be repacked just fine.
>
>
>  > You can get to Mozilla CVS with rsync.
>  > https://wiki.mozilla.org/How_to_Create_a_CVS_Mirror
>  > I think it was the master Mozilla makefile with the 2000 deltas.
>  > The whole repo is 15GB so you probably just want the Makefile,v
>
>
> I have a test Mozilla repo dating back to the time you were playing with
>  it too (I think).  Its directory date is 2007-04-12.  It was quite
>  tightly packed already, but I just ran a "git repack -a -d -f
>  --window=100 --depth=2000" on it and now have a 380MB pack file for it.
>
>
>
>  Nicolas
>


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Jon Smirl
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