Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > I hate it every single time git hangs because gc is activated. > Opening another terminal is an option but I would lose all terminal > settings I have on the current one (e.g. access to suspended vim > sessions). > > I don't think gc_warn_* need their own config vars. Hopefully > hardcoded offset is good enough. Let's think about How the user chooses a custom value for the threshold (or accepts that the default threshold value 6600 is good enough). In order to minimize the time the user has to endure when the eventual auto-gc kicks in, the value needs to be small enough, and to minimize the frequency the auto-gc kicks in, the value needs to be large enough. It is a balancing act between the two. Slower users (those who do not create that many objects within a given time period) can afford to have a small threashold and do not have to suffer too frequent auto-gc. Busier ones would rather choose larger threashold to avoid frequent auto-gc because they create many objects within a given time period. The reason why the user would want a warning is probably because the user sometimes is too busy and cannot afford the disruption of auto-gc, but the busy period luckily does not last indefinitely, e.g. if a warning is given two days before the auto-gc actually kicks in, then within that two days there is a window of time that the user can manually run gc while fetching a cup of coffee. For different users, the "two days" in this example would be different. Some people would need longer warning period. Some people can live with shorter warning period. The number of objects before the next auto-gc run, divided by the number of objects the user would create on average in an hour, would give the length of the warning period. Now, I suspect that busier users would need longer window than slower ones, which leads me to suspect that a good default would not be a hardcoded constant offset (e.g. once you see the new warning, the auto-gc kicks in after creating 100 objects) but some ratio of the threshold (e.g. you have 2% margin after getting a warning before the auto-gc kicks in). -- 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