On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, Jeff King wrote: > On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 01:47:54AM -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: > > > The key to converting repositories of this size is RAM. 4GB minimum, > > more would be better. git-repack is not multi-threaded. There were a > > few attempts at making it multi-threaded but none were too successful. > > If I remember right, with loads of RAM, a repack on a 450MB repository > > was taking about five hours on a 2.8Ghz Core2. But this is something > > you only have to do once for the import. Later repacks will reuse the > > original deltas. > > Actually, Nicolas put quite a bit of work into multi-threading the > repack process; the results have been in master for some time, and will > be in the soon-to-be-released v1.5.4. > > The downside is that the threading partitions the object space, so the > resulting size is not necessarily as small (but I don't know that > anybody has done testing on large repos to find out how large the > difference is). Quick guesstimate is in the 1% ballpark. 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
