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Re: pack operation is thrashing my server

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Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date
Aug 14, 2008, 14:01 UTC
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<alpine.LFD.1.10.0808140954400.4352@xanadu.home>
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<48A3D1D7.5030805@op5.se>
On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
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> As a corporate git user, I can say that I'm very rarely worried
> about how much data gets sent over our in-office gigabit network.
> My primary concern wrt server side git is cpu- and IO-heavy
> operations, as we run the entire machine in a vmware guest os
> which just plain sucks at such things.

In the general case, the amount of data sent over the network is directly proportional to disk IO.

Nicolas
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