Re: 'git gc --aggressive' effectively unusable

On Sun, 2010-04-04 at 01:23 +0200, Frans Pop wrote:

On Saturday 03 April 2010, Michael Witten wrote:

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On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 16:05, Frans Pop [off-list ref] wrote:

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I haven't had the patience to let it finish

There's your problem.

Yes, I had seen that. But there's a difference between taking much more 
time and slowing down to such an extend that it never finishes.

I've tried it today on my linux-2.6 repo as well and the same thing 
happened. At first the progress is not fast but reasonable. When it gets 
to about 45% percent it starts slowing down a lot: from ~1500 objects per 
update of the counters to ~300 objects per update. And who knows what the 
progress is going to be when it reaches 70% or 90%: 10 per update?

With a total of over 2 milion objects in the repository such a low speed is 
simply not going to work, ever. So I maintain that it is effectively 
unusable.

As a data point, when I do gc, I routinely use --aggressive.  It takes a
while here, but not forever.  (I'm a tad short of 2 million objects)

Repo is mainline + next + tip + stable >= 2.6.22 + local branches.

git@marge:..git/linux-2.6> time git gc --aggressive
Counting objects: 1909894, done.
Delta compression using up to 4 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (1889774/1889774), done.
Writing objects: 100% (1909894/1909894), done.
Total 1909894 (delta 1674098), reused 0 (delta 0)

real    22m24.943s
user    55m33.756s
sys     0m8.149s

git is 1.7.0.3

	-Mike