Re: suspend slow in 2.6.25-rc6 (was Re: Suspend and hibernation patchset against -rc6)

Pavel Machek
2008-03-19T10:19:47Z

Hi!

> > It will take a while. My .git directory is 7G, and I'd like to do a
> > backup before playing with git.
>
> Ouch, what have you done? It should be about 200MB, not 7GB.
>
> > git gc does not exist here, so I guess I need to update git, too :-(.
>
> Well, even with old git you can just do
>
> git repack -a -d
>
> and in your case you'll probably have to leave it running overnight,
> because it's going to take hours since you've clearly not ever repacked it
> before and as a result it's going to do lots and lots of IO (all that 7GB
> and then read much of it twice).

And 10 minutes later, .git directory is 200MB. Thanks!

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