From: C. Scott Ananian <cscott@cscott.net>
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 22:47:31 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] write-tree performance problems
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0504191846160.29929@cag.csail.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0504191017300.19286@ppc970.osdl.org>

On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> (*) Actually, I think it's the compression that ends up being the most
> expensive part.

You're also using the equivalent of '-9', too -- and *that's slow*.
Changing to Z_NORMAL_COMPRESSION would probably help a lot
(but would break all existing repositories, sigh).
  --scott

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