Re: 'git gc --aggressive' effectively unusable

From: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Date: Apr 3, 2010, 23:23 UTC
Message-ID: <201004040123.06877.elendil@planet.nl>
In-Reply-To: <p2gb4087cc51004031433xc57e52bbq733d1d3c5f37f238@mail.gmail.com>

On Saturday 03 April 2010, Michael Witten wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 16:05, Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> wrote:
> > I haven't had the patience to let it finish
>
> There's your problem.

Yes, I had seen that. But there's a difference between taking much more time and slowing down to such an extend that it never finishes.

I've tried it today on my linux-2.6 repo as well and the same thing happened. At first the progress is not fast but reasonable. When it gets to about 45% percent it starts slowing down a lot: from ~1500 objects per update of the counters to ~300 objects per update. And who knows what the progress is going to be when it reaches 70% or 90%: 10 per update?

With a total of over 2 milion objects in the repository such a low speed is simply not going to work, ever. So I maintain that it is effectively unusable.

Cheers, FJP