On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 12:32:35AM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > What version of git are you using? In the past year or so, I've made > > several tweaks to speed up large numbers of refs, including: > > > > - cff38a5 (receive-pack: eliminate duplicate .have refs, v1.7.6); note > > that this only helps if they are being pulled in by an alternates > > repo. And even then, it only helps if they are mostly duplicates; > > distinct ones are still O(n^2). > > > > - 7db8d53 (fetch-pack: avoid quadratic behavior in remove_duplicates) > > a0de288 (fetch-pack: avoid quadratic loop in filter_refs) > > Both in v1.7.11. I think there is still a potential quadratic loop > > in mark_complete() > > > > - 90108a2 (upload-pack: avoid parsing tag destinations) > > 926f1dd (upload-pack: avoid parsing objects during ref advertisement) > > Both in v1.7.10. Note that tag objects are more expensive to > > advertise than commits, because we have to load and peel them. > > > > Even with those patches, though, I found that it was something like ~2s > > to advertise 100,000 refs. > > FWIW I bisected between 1.7.9 and 1.7.10 and found that the point at > which it went from 1.5/s to 2.5/s upload-pack runs on the pathological > git.git repository was none of those, but: > > ccdc6037fe - parse_object: try internal cache before reading object db Ah, yeah, I forgot about that one. That implies that you have a lot of refs pointing to the same objects (since the benefit of that commit is to avoid reading from disk when we have already seen it). Out of curiosity, what does your repo contain? I saw a lot of speedup with that commit because my repos are big object stores, where we have the same duplicated tag refs for every fork of the repo. -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