Re: Performance issue: initial git clone causes massive repack

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Apr 7, 2009, 20:29 UTC
Message-ID: <20090407202954.GA13501@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20090407181259.GB4413@atjola.homenet>

On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 08:12:59PM +0200, Björn Steinbrink wrote:

> If so, that doesn't look it it's going to work out as easily as one
> would hope. Robin said that both processes, git-upload-pack (which does
> the rev-list) and pack-objects peaked at ~2GB of RSS (which probably
> includes the mmapped packs). But the above pack-objects with --all peaks

I thought he said this, too, but look at the ps output he posted here:

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/115739

It clearly shows upload-pack with a tiny RSS, and pack-objects doing all of the damage.

-Peff

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