From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 11:40:01 GMT
Subject: Re: git prune pig slow
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0607291339200.29667@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20060729090250.GC26956@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>

Hi,

On Sat, 29 Jul 2006, Russell King wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> git 1.4.0, P4 2.6GHz, 1GB.
> 
> I'm trying to use "git prune" to remove some unreachable objects from
> my git tree.  However, it appears to be _extremely_ expensive:
> 
> rmk      13376 91.3 15.7 165980 161556 pts/0   R+   09:50   5:14 git-fsck-object
> 
> stracing it shows that it's doing lots and lots of brk() calls.

Does git-count-objects show a high amount of unpacked objects? You should 
try "git-repack -a -d" _before_ git-prune, then.

Hth,
Dscho