From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kevin D Subject: Re: Git very slow ? Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2015 16:51:36 +0100 Message-ID: <20150308155136.GA6273@vps892.directvps.nl> References: <20150307013007.GA13250@milliways> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Ken Moffat X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Mar 08 16:52:09 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YUdUu-0000oh-Jx for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Mar 2015 16:52:08 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752730AbbCHPvi (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Mar 2015 11:51:38 -0400 Received: from ikke.info ([178.21.113.177]:36897 "EHLO vps892.directvps.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752301AbbCHPvh (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Mar 2015 11:51:37 -0400 Received: by vps892.directvps.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 994431DCF6D; Sun, 8 Mar 2015 16:51:36 +0100 (CET) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150307013007.GA13250@milliways> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sat, Mar 07, 2015 at 01:30:07AM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote: > Hi, please CC me if that is not your usual fashion, because I am not > subscribed. > > I use git for my build scripts - those are accessed over nfs. Since > I started using 2.1 and later (I don't think I used 2.0) commands > such as 'commit' take a long time before anything happens. I > assumed that the newer version meant this would take longer. > > But today^Wyesterday I was bisecting the kernel on a local > filesystem - even when the number of revisions left to test was in > the single digits, git bisect took a long time to decide which > revision should be the next one to test. The filesystems are ext4. > Is this sort of delay normal now? > > What really prompted me to ask is that I ran git blame on a script, > to see when I made a particular change so that I could add that > information to a ticket, and almost gave up waiting because it felt > as if it was taking for ever. > What kind of repository are we talking about? How many files, how big? Git should not have become significantly slower recently. Also, might there be anti-virus software that slows down file access?