From: Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@kaarsemaker.net>
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 21:31:27 GMT
Subject: Re: Reducing CPU load on git server
Message-ID: <1472506287.4265.36.camel@kaarsemaker.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAFMAO9wQD5GtGRGv-sMy=NA1q8kbu6n3FFbWuJ+W5-qnRDKW-w@mail.gmail.com>

On ma, 2016-08-29 at 13:57 -0700, W. David Jarvis wrote:

> >  * If you do need branches consider archiving stale tags/branches
> > after some time. I implemented this where I work, we just have a
> > $REPO-archive.git with every tag/branch ever created for a given
> > $REPO.git, and delete refs after a certain time.
> 
> This is something else that we're actively considering. Why did your
> company implement this -- was it to reduce load, or just to clean up
> your repositories? Did you notice any change in server load?

At 50k refs, ref negotiation gets expensive, especially over http

D.