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Re: [PATCH 1/2] Support for setitimer() on platforms lacking it

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Sep 4, 2012, 18:47 UTC
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
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> "Joachim Schmitz" <jojo@schmitz-digital.de> writes:
>
>>> Only with the observation of "clone", I cannot tell if your timer is
>>> working.  You can try repacking the test repository you created by
>>> your earlier "git clone" with "git repack -a -d -f" and see what
>>> happens.
>>
>> It does update the counter too.
>
> Yeah, that was not a very good way to diagnose it.
>
> You see the progress from pack-objects (which is the underlying
> machinery "git repack" uses) only because it knows how many objects
> it is going to pack, and it updates the progress meter for every
> per-cent progress it makes, without any help from the timer
> interrupt.

I think the "Counting objects: $number" phase is purely driven by the timer, as there is no way to say "we are done X per-cent so far".

Doesn't your repack show "Counting objects: " with a number once, pause forever and then show "Counting objects: $number, done."?

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  1. 1/2 Support for setitimer() on platforms lacking itJoachim Schmitz, Aug 24, 2012
  2. Junio C HamanoAug 28, 2012
  3. Joachim SchmitzAug 30, 2012
  4. Junio C HamanoAug 30, 2012
  5. Joachim SchmitzAug 30, 2012
  6. Joachim SchmitzSep 1, 2012
  7. Junio C HamanoSep 2, 2012
  8. Joachim SchmitzSep 3, 2012
  9. Johannes SixtSep 3, 2012
  10. Junio C HamanoSep 3, 2012
  11. Junio C HamanoSep 3, 2012
  12. Joachim SchmitzSep 3, 2012
  13. Junio C HamanoSep 4, 2012
  14. Joachim SchmitzSep 4, 2012
  15. Junio C HamanoSep 4, 2012
  16. Junio C HamanoSep 4, 2012
  17. Joachim SchmitzSep 4, 2012
  18. Junio C HamanoSep 4, 2012
  19. Joachim SchmitzSep 5, 2012
  20. Johannes SixtSep 4, 2012

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