When a parent blob already has chunks queued up for blaming, dropping the blob at the end of one blame step will cause it to get reloaded right away, doubling the amount of I/O and unpacking when processing a linear history. Keeping such parent blobs in memory seems like a reasonable optimization that should incur additional memory pressure mostly when processing the merges from old branches. Signed-off-by: David Kastrup <dak@xxxxxxx> --- blame.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/blame.c b/blame.c index 5c07dec190..c11c516921 100644 --- a/blame.c +++ b/blame.c @@ -1562,7 +1562,8 @@ static void pass_blame(struct blame_scoreboard *sb, struct blame_origin *origin, } for (i = 0; i < num_sg; i++) { if (sg_origin[i]) { - drop_origin_blob(sg_origin[i]); + if (!sg_origin[i]->suspects) + drop_origin_blob(sg_origin[i]); blame_origin_decref(sg_origin[i]); } } -- 2.20.1