Re: cloning the kernel - why long time in "Resolving 313037 deltas"

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Dec 18, 2006, 22:09 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612181708340.18171@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <86hcvs984c.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>

On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:

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> >>>>> "Nicolas" == Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:
> 
> Nicolas> Could you try the following please:
> 
> Nicolas> 	time git-index-pack -v -o /dev/null .git/objects/pack/*.pack
> 
> Nicolas> and provide us with the time it took (or an estimate if it is going to 
> Nicolas> be on hour long)?
> 
> Nicolas> Performing the above on my kernel repository (after it was repacked into 
> Nicolas> a single ~150MB pack) takes only 37 seconds.
> 
> I have a single pack.
> 
> "Indexing" took about 30 seconds.
> "Resolving 313037 deltas" looks like it's going to take an hour.
> 
> So that *was* a local delay.

What CPU and amount of ram do you have?

Are you on Windows?