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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Subject: Re: pack operation is thrashing my server
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:01:03 -0400 (EDT)
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On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, Andreas Ericsson wrote:

> As a corporate git user, I can say that I'm very rarely worried
> about how much data gets sent over our in-office gigabit network.
> My primary concern wrt server side git is cpu- and IO-heavy
> operations, as we run the entire machine in a vmware guest os
> which just plain sucks at such things.

In the general case, the amount of data sent over the network is 
directly proportional to disk IO.


Nicolas