On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 14:53 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> > On Fri, 21 Mar 2008, James Utter wrote: > > > > james@timesink:~/testgit$ time git commit --message "initial commit" > > Created initial commit 4f4b3a3: initial commit > > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > create mode 100644 hello > > > > real 0m10.008s > > user 0m0.000s > > sys 0m0.008s > > Ok, that is almost exactly 10 seconds longer than it should take. > > And I can almost guarantee that it's something like a problem looking up > your hostname or perhaps user identity - I would guess you have some name > service problem. > > Do an > > strace -tT git commit --message "initial commit" > > on that git commit to make sure, but I would almost bet that it's when git > does tget "getpwuid()" thing to get your name from the gecos fields, and > you have some setup problem with nscd o similar. > > It might just go away if you set up your user name and email manually, ie > try doing > > git config --global user.name "James Utter" > git config --global user.email james.utter@gmail.com > > and see if that makes the delay go away. It probably tries to look up your > login info from some non-existent NIS setup, and then times out after ten > seconds and picks the data from your /etc/passwd file instead. > > (There can be other things that do similar things - misconfigured name > servers etc can cause delay etc. So maybe I'm wrogn on blaming nscd, but > it would be my first guess). > > Linus
It looks like you are right. Setting the git config --global settings makes the problem disappear. I am not aware of (actively) setting up any NIS, but there may be trouble in the DNS server.
>From the strace (attached):
10:55:34 sendto(3, "\307\304\1\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\ttimesink\n\5svana \3net"..., 37, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0) = 37 <0.000159> 10:55:34 poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN}], 1, 5000) = 0 <4.995564> 10:55:39 poll([{fd=3, events=POLLOUT, revents=POLLOUT}], 1, 0) = 1 <0.000098> 10:55:39 sendto(3, "\307\304\1\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\ttimesink\n\5svana \3net"..., 37, MSG_NOSIGNAL, NULL, 0) = 37 <0.000130> 10:55:39 poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN}], 1, 5000) = 0 <4.999161> 10:55:44 close(3) = 0 <0.000111> 10:55:44 open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3 <0.000066>
Thank you,
James Utter