On August 24, 2019 5:00 PM, Bryan Turner wrote: > On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 6:59 PM <randall.s.becker@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Hi All, > > > > I'm trying to answer a question for a customer on clone performance. > > They are doing at least 2-3 clones a day, of repositories with about > > 2500 files and 10Gb of content. This is stressing the file system. > > Can you go into a bit more detail about what "stress" means? Using too > much disk space? Too many IOPS reading/packing? Since you specifically > called out the filesystem, does that mean the CPU/memory usage is > acceptable? The upstream is BitBucket, which does a gc frequently. I'm not sure any of this is relating to the pack structure. Git is spending most of its time writing the large number of large files into the working directory - it is stress mostly the disk, with a bit on the CPU (neither is acceptable to the customer). I am really unsure there is any way to make things better. The core issue is that the customer insists on doing a clone for every feature branch instead of using pull/checkout. I have been unable to change their mind - to this point anyway. We are going to be setting up a detailed performance analysis that may lead to some data the git team can use. Regards, Randall