On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 09:59:08AM +0200, Piotr Krukowiecki wrote: > I've run the command and it took about 20 minutes in "Counting > objects" to count up to 500000 on idle machine and there's still 700MB > RAM free. > [...] > So it looks it's not a problem with git but rather with my disk/file > system/linux... You mentioned that git was in the 'D' state earlier. And it sounds like you have 1.7 million objects, _completely_ unpacked. So my guess is that it is simply taking an enormous amount of disk space, and git is mostly waiting on the disk to read in files. What does "du -sh .git/objects" say? -Peff -- 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