On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. That's right - since I had auto-gc disabled at first it had not chance to pack anything. > 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? It isn't that big - it's 11G. .git/objects/pack/ is 666MB currently. -- Piotr Krukowiecki -- 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