On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Jon Smirl wrote: > On 8/24/07, Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Jon Smirl wrote: > > > > > I'm still trying to debug git-daemon > > > > > > I do find it surprising that git-index-pack can't be happy with in > > > 20MB of RAM and it has to continuously swap it's 30MB of virtual. My > > > disk is chattering itself to death. It stayed that way for 40 minutes. > > > > > > I'm practicing on the kernel tree. > > > > You hope for miracles, do you? ;-) > > We're going something wrong in git-daemon. I can clone the tree in > five minutes using the http protocol. Using the git protocol would > take 24hrs if I let it finish. The http protocol is merely only a dumb file copy with no packing optimization what so ever. The native protocol performs a whole more to provide clients with only the minimum data needed. Try running "git repack -a" directly on the NSLU2. You should have the same performance problems as with a clone. Nicolas - 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