From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 10:25:36 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/32] Lockfile correctness and refactoring
Message-ID: <CACsJy8AO5Ni1BNJGa1Wy5ZdX=HNE1UuVM-gnwtHBw01sfcZNrg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20140910081358.GB16413@peff.net>

On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> I was running pack-refs on a repository with a very large number of
> loose refs (about 1.8 million). Needless to say, this ran very slowly
> and thrashed the disk, as that's almost 7G using 4K inodes. But it did
> eventually generate a packed-refs file, at which point it tried to prune
> the loose refs.

Urghh.. ref advertisment for fetch/push would be unbelievably large.
Gotta look at the "git protocol v2" again soon..
-- 
Duy