Re: git-daemon on NSLU2

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Aug 24, 2007, 21:54 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0708241749040.16727@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910708241417l44c55306xaa322afda69c6beb@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Jon Smirl wrote:

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> On 8/24/07, Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Jon Smirl wrote:
> >
> > > I'm still trying to debug git-daemon
> > >
> > > I do find it surprising that git-index-pack can't be happy with in
> > > 20MB of RAM and it has to continuously swap it's 30MB of virtual. My
> > > disk is chattering itself to death. It stayed that way for 40 minutes.
> > >
> > > I'm practicing on the kernel tree.
> >
> > You hope for miracles, do you?  ;-)
> 
> We're going something wrong in git-daemon. I can clone the tree in
> five minutes using the http protocol. Using the git protocol would
> take 24hrs if I let it finish.

The http protocol is merely only a dumb file copy with no packing optimization what so ever.

The native protocol performs a whole more to provide clients with only the minimum data needed.

Try running "git repack -a" directly on the NSLU2. You should have the same performance problems as with a clone.

Nicolas