Re: Inexplicably deteriorating performance of Git repositories on Windows

From: Ferry Huberts <mailings@hupie.com>
Date: Nov 23, 2010, 21:49 UTC
Message-ID: <4CEC36F3.5020908@hupie.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimTh7ka21inpovM=qqdWs6j2OcPXVsFh_CMiZ7N@mail.gmail.com>

Are your users using the 'show my status in the prompt' feature? If so, then disable all but showing the current branch, it makes a whole lot of difference :-)

On 11/23/2010 08:08 PM, Dun Peal wrote:

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> Hey,
> 
> We have a bunch of Windows users, unfortunately, and they're using the
> latest msysGit release (Git-1.7.3.1-preview20101002).
> 
> An interesting issue we've noticed is that the Time To Complete of
> their common operations start deteriorating inexplicably, and
> severely, some time after the clone.
> 
> For instance, immediately after a clone, `git status` takes about
> 5-6s. Which is slow compared to Linux (consistent 1-2s), but still
> usable (it's a BIG repo).
> 
> However, after a reboot (of all things), `git status` latency
> skyrockets to 14-15s, making the repo unusable.
> 
> Any idea what's going on?  We just recently switched from SVN, and
> those users are getting really frustrated. BTW, the only real
> alternative I'm aware of, Cygwin's git, is even slower.
> 
> Thanks, D
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grtz

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Ferry Huberts