On 2009.04.05 23:24:27 -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Sun, 5 Apr 2009, Sverre Rabbelier wrote: > > > Heya, > > > > On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 23:28, <david@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Guys, back off a little on telling the gentoo people to change. > > > > I agree here, we should either say "look, we don't really support big > > repositories because [explanation here], unless you [workarounds > > here]" OR we should work to improve the support we do have. Of course, > > the latter option does not magically create developer time to work on > > that, but if we do go that way we should at least tell people that we > > are aware of the problems and that it's on the global TODO list (not > > necessarily on anyone's personal TODO list though). > > For the record... I at least am aware of the problem and it is indeed on > my personal git todo list. Not that I have a clear solution yet (I've > been pondering on some git packing issues for almost 4 years now). > > Still, in this particular case, the problem appears to be unclear to me, > like "this shouldn't be so bad". It's not primarily pack-objects, I think. It's the rev-list that's run by upload-pack. Running "git rev-list --objects --all" on that repo eats about 2G RSS, easily killing the system's cache on a small box, leading to swapping and a painful time reading the packfile contents afterwards to send them to the client. Björn -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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