On Sun, Mar 08, 2015 at 04:51:36PM +0100, Kevin D wrote: > On Sat, Mar 07, 2015 at 01:30:07AM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote: > > Hi, please CC me if that is not your usual fashion, because I am not > > subscribed. > > > > I use git for my build scripts - those are accessed over nfs. Since > > I started using 2.1 and later (I don't think I used 2.0) commands > > such as 'commit' take a long time before anything happens. I > > assumed that the newer version meant this would take longer. > > > > But today^Wyesterday I was bisecting the kernel on a local > > filesystem - even when the number of revisions left to test was in > > the single digits, git bisect took a long time to decide which > > revision should be the next one to test. The filesystems are ext4. > > Is this sort of delay normal now? > > > > What really prompted me to ask is that I ran git blame on a script, > > to see when I made a particular change so that I could add that > > information to a ticket, and almost gave up waiting because it felt > > as if it was taking for ever. > > > > What kind of repository are we talking about? How many files, how big? > Git should not have become significantly slower recently. > The comments on git bisect were for linus'skernel tree, on a local disk. 2.3GB of repo, just under 57000 files. My own repo of build scripts, where I have noticed the delay before git commit lets me type in the message, is an nfs v3 mount from another of my machines in the same room - ping between them gives times of 0.25 to 0.3 seconds and I think the nfs part is irrelevant. Here, the size is 70MB and 12133 files [ about 1500 scripts total, so the rest is from the commits ]. Some of this might be the drives - on the desktop with linus's tree the machine only supports SATA2 (3GB/S), but the machine serving my scripts goes back further and probably only supports SATA1 (1.5GB/S) > Also, might there be anti-virus software that slows down file access? No, this is all local access on linux machines. ĸen -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. -- 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