From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 07:53:56 GMT
Subject: Re: epic fsck SIGSEGV!
Message-ID: <7vy6yntaej.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0812101930590.3340@localhost.localdomain>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> It has gotten no real testing. Caveat emptor. And I didn't even bother to 
> check that it can run with less stack or that it makes any other 
> difference.

A quick "git fsck --full" in a copy of git.git (eh, "not-so-quick" on a
not-so-quick machine, obviously) shows that the patch does reduce minor
faults significantly.

(without patch)
83.03user 0.60system 1:23.62elapsed 100%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+158275minor)pagefaults 0swaps

(with object_array patch)
82.88user 0.40system 1:23.28elapsed 100%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+95397minor)pagefaults 0swaps