>>>>> "Linus" == Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> writes: Linus> This sounds like _exactly_ what happens if you don't repack Linus> occasionally. Expecially if you are using a filesystem without hashed Linus> filename lookup, but it's true to some degree even with that - the Linus> filesystem tends to end up spending tons of time in kernel space, Linus> trying to find a place to put new objects. I'm using git-svn to do a similar thing with a 11K-commit history. It's now 4 days running, and yes, I'm repacking and deleting empty dirs every 200-300 commits, but I'm only up to commit 4000 or so. At this rate, I *may* finish by sometime next week. :( However, I notice one thing that can't be good: .git/git-svn/revs has one file per revision. Yes, I'll end up with 11000 files in a single directory. Ugh. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <merlyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training! - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html