From: Miles Bader Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2010 00:14:07 GMT Subject: Re: 'git gc --aggressive' effectively unusable Message-ID: <87oci0m5v4.fsf@catnip.gol.com> In-Reply-To: <201004040123.06877.elendil@planet.nl> Frans Pop writes: >> > 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? Are you sure it doesn't subsequently speed up again? -Miles -- Idiot, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.