23 nov 2010 kl. 20:08 skrev Dun Peal: > Hey, > > We have a bunch of Windows users, unfortunately, and they're using the > latest msysGit release (Git-1.7.3.1-preview20101002). > > An interesting issue we've noticed is that the Time To Complete of > their common operations start deteriorating inexplicably, and > severely, some time after the clone. > > For instance, immediately after a clone, `git status` takes about > 5-6s. Which is slow compared to Linux (consistent 1-2s), but still > usable (it's a BIG repo). > > However, after a reboot (of all things), `git status` latency > skyrockets to 14-15s, making the repo unusable. > > Any idea what's going on? We just recently switched from SVN, and > those users are getting really frustrated. BTW, the only real > alternative I'm aware of, Cygwin's git, is even slower. > Is the file system badly fragmented? The worst kind is when the MFT is fragmented, which may give you very bad performance and the defrag that comes with Windows does not fix MFT fragmentation. Is NTFS compression enabled? I doubt its helpfulness with Git. -- robin -- 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