Re: [RFC PATCH] trace2: don't overload target directories

[Jeff Hostetler <git@jeffhostetler.com>]

On 7/29/2019 6:20 PM, Josh Steadmon wrote:
> trace2 can write files into a target directory. With heavy usage, this
> directory can fill up with files, causing difficulty for
> trace-processing systems.

I'm routing data in my org to a daemon via a Named Pipe or UD Socket,
so I'm not seeing the thousands of files problems that you're seeing.
However, we were being overwhelmed with lots of "uninteresting" commands
and so I added some whitelisting to my post-processing daemon.  For
example, I want to know about checkout and push times -- I really don't
care about rev-parse or config times or other such minor commands.

I went one step further and allow either "(cmd_name)" or
the pair "(cmd_name, cmd_mode)".  This lets me select all checkouts
and limit checkouts to branch-changing ones, for example.  I drop
any events in my post-processor that does not match any of my whitelist
patterns.

Perhaps you could run a quick histogram and see if something would
be useful to pre-filter the data.  That is, if we had whitelisting
within git.exe itself, would you still have too much data and/or
would you still need the overload feature that you've proposed in
this RFC?

Thanks,
Jeff