From: Vegard Nossum Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2016 06:55:29 GMT Subject: Re: Huge performance bottleneck reading packs Message-ID: <0e4173b6-8fbb-4223-b061-524c7ebfd4d7@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <20161013204351.rezqssvw63343l4g@sigill.intra.peff.net> On 10/13/2016 10:43 PM, Jeff King wrote: > No problem. I do think you'll benefit a lot from packing everything into > a single pack, but it's also clear that Git was doing more work than it > needed to be. This was a known issue when we added the racy-check to > has_sha1_file(), and knew that we might have to field reports like this > one. After 'git gc' (with the .5G limit) I have 23 packs and with your patch I now get: $ time git fetch real 0m26.520s user 0m3.580s sys 0m0.636s Thanks! vegard