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From: Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@kaarsemaker.net>
To: "W. David Jarvis" <william.d.jarvis@gmail.com>,
	"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: Git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Reducing CPU load on git server
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 23:31:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1472506287.4265.36.camel@kaarsemaker.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFMAO9wQD5GtGRGv-sMy=NA1q8kbu6n3FFbWuJ+W5-qnRDKW-w@mail.gmail.com>

On ma, 2016-08-29 at 13:57 -0700, W. David Jarvis wrote:

> >  * If you do need branches consider archiving stale tags/branches
> > after some time. I implemented this where I work, we just have a
> > $REPO-archive.git with every tag/branch ever created for a given
> > $REPO.git, and delete refs after a certain time.
> 
> This is something else that we're actively considering. Why did your
> company implement this -- was it to reduce load, or just to clean up
> your repositories? Did you notice any change in server load?

At 50k refs, ref negotiation gets expensive, especially over http

D. 

      reply	other threads:[~2016-08-29 21:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-28 19:42 Reducing CPU load on git server W. David Jarvis
2016-08-28 21:20 ` Jakub Narębski
2016-08-28 23:18   ` W. David Jarvis
2016-08-29  5:47 ` Jeff King
2016-08-29 10:46   ` Jakub Narębski
2016-08-29 17:18     ` Jeff King
2016-08-29 19:16   ` W. David Jarvis
2016-08-29 21:31     ` Jeff King
2016-08-29 22:41       ` W. David Jarvis
2016-08-31  6:02         ` Jeff King
2016-08-30 10:46       ` git blame <directory> [was: Reducing CPU load on git server] Jakub Narębski
2016-08-31  5:42         ` Jeff King
2016-08-31  7:28           ` Dennis Kaarsemaker
2016-08-29 20:14 ` Reducing CPU load on git server Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2016-08-29 20:57   ` W. David Jarvis
2016-08-29 21:31     ` Dennis Kaarsemaker [this message]

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