Re: Git super slow on Windows 7

From: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 25, 2015, 18:42 UTC
Message-ID: <0B47434E-00FE-463A-95F1-1F10537C9F7A@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <EEA07A84-26D8-4709-97AC-2C4F3A0CC5BD@gmail.com>

After some investigation I figured that ~50 Submodules are the culprit. Does anyone have an idea how to speed up Git on Windows while keeping 50 Submodules?

Thanks, Lars

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> On 25 Nov 2015, at 13:35, Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Johannes,
> 
> I am working with Git for Windows right now and it is dramatically slower than on OS X.
> I executed "time git status" on Windows and OS X with the same repository and the following results:
> 
> ## Windows git version 2.6.3.windows.1 (with enabled experimental flag on install):
> real    0m1.327s
> user    0m0.000s
> sys     0m0.015s
> 
> 
> ## OS X git version 2.4.9 (Apple Git-60):
> git status  0.06s user 0.13s system 102% cpu 0.186 total
> 
> 
> Initially it was even slower on Windows (~1.6s). According to [1] I used the following settings to make it faster:
> $ git config --global core.preloadindex true
> $ git config --global core.fscache true
> 
> Is this behavior normal/expected?
> If it is not normal, how would you debug the issue? How can I find out why it is so slow?
> 
> My user drive is not on a net share and the machine has a SSD.
> 
> Thanks,
> Lars
> 
> 
> [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4485059/git-bash-is-extremely-slow-in-windows-7-x64