From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 15:36:36 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cvsimport: introduce -L<imit> option to workaround memory leaks
Message-ID: <20060523153636.GA21506@thunk.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0605221926270.3697@g5.osdl.org>

On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 07:28:37PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> This stupid patch on top of yours seems to make git happier. It's 
> disgusting, I know, but it just repacks things every kilo-commit.
> 
> I actually think that I found a real ext3 performance bug from trying to 
> determine why git sometimes slows down ridiculously when the tree has been 
> allowed to go too long without a repack.

Do you have dir_index (the hashed btree) feature enabled by any chance?

						- Ted