Re: [PATCH] cvsimport: introduce -L<imit> option to workaround memory leaks

On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 07:28:37PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

This stupid patch on top of yours seems to make git happier. It's 
disgusting, I know, but it just repacks things every kilo-commit.

I actually think that I found a real ext3 performance bug from trying to 
determine why git sometimes slows down ridiculously when the tree has been 
allowed to go too long without a repack.

Do you have dir_index (the hashed btree) feature enabled by any chance?

						- Ted