Re: pack operation is thrashing my server

On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:

I wonder how hard it would be to replace the whole table thing with our 
generic hash.c hash thing. I'll take a look.

Ok, I did a quick version that didn't replace anything at all, and it 
doesn't look like there is room for that helping much. Yes, I can speed 
things up, but it didn't get much faster than just raising the delta cache 
to 1024 entries.

Admittedly my quick hack might have been fundamentally flawed, but it was 
such an ugly thing that I'm not even going to post it.

And the added memory footprint makes it unacceptable, so it's going to be 
limited by the cache size anyway, and not get a lot of hits in git 
rev-list, methinks.

		Linus