From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 03:20:17 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pack-objects: don't use too many threads with few objects
Message-ID: <20081216032016.GA4247@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vy6ygudhb.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 05:15:44PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Perhaps the two runs are seeing different number of CPUs (hence threads)
> available?  That would then change the distribution of the work itself
> (i.e. what slice of obj-list goes as a single chunk to be processed) and
> would affect the outcome.

I am seeing the same failure as Mike on one of my boxen.  Each run sees
the same number of threads (4 in my case).

> Does the second test this patch adds fail?

With your patch, the added "both should match" test fails. So it seems
to be about doing a second run at all, not the difference in index
versions.

-Peff