# weird performance bug 1 messages from 2011-07-25 to 2011-07-25. Participants: fREW Schmidt. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/27920 ## fREW Schmidt, 2011-07-25 23:03 Subject: weird performance bug Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CADVrmKQ5YU9qBVT_Xi1GcGr8PRzyLzHCsA2bHqzmrvtCXw9JEg%40mail.gmail.com ``` I'm not really sure how to reproduce this without sharing my whole repo so I'll explain it first. I did a fairly large merge today at work and in the process, so that I could skim some stuff, I set gitk to have zero lines of context. After finally committing the merge, if I ran gitk, it would consume an entire core trying to (I'm guessing) render the diff for gitk.  It never completed, and even after closing gitk, there was still a git process in the background pegging a core.  If I fix the lines of context to be 3 again and restart gitk the problem goes away. This occurred on ubuntu with git 1.7.6. -- fREW Schmidt http://blog.afoolishmanifesto.com ```