From: "SZEDER Gábor" <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
To: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>
Cc: "Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>,
git@vger.kernel.org, entwicklung@pengutronix.de
Subject: Re: git slow unless piped to cat
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 11:44:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190827094407.GV20404@szeder.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1566897126.4102.5.camel@pengutronix.de>
On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 11:12:06AM +0200, Philipp Zabel wrote:
> On Tue, 2019-08-27 at 10:56 +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 10:41:11AM +0200, SZEDER Gábor wrote:
> > > On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 10:15:59AM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > > > I have a problem here with git being slow in some situations.
> > > > Using git 2.23.0 (from Debian) the effect is:
> > > >
> > > > ukl@dude.ptx:/ptx/src/git/linux.git$ sudo sh -c "echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches"; time git show v5.2
> > > > tag v5.2
> > > > ...
> > > >
> > > > real 0m12.727s
> > > > user 0m0.300s
> > > > sys 0m0.371s
> > > >
> > > > But to get the actual data isn't the problem:
> > > >
> > > > ukl@dude.ptx:/ptx/src/git/linux.git$ sudo sh -c "echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches"; time git show v5.2 | cat
> > > > tag v5.2
> > > > ...
> > > >
> > > > real 0m0.764s
> > > > user 0m0.014s
> > > > sys 0m0.020s
> > > >
> > >
> > > How does 'git --no-pager show v5.2' perform? If it's as fast as the
> > > case piping the output to cat, then look into what pager and pager
> > > options you use.
> >
> > ukl@dude.ptx:/ptx/src/git/linux.git$ sudo sh -c "echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches"; time git --no-pager show v5.2
> > tag v5.2
> > ...
> >
> > real 0m13.225s
> > user 0m0.355s
> > sys 0m0.336s
> >
> > So this doesn't seem to be the problem. Also the local configuration
> > can be ruled out:
> >
> > ukl@dude.ptx:/ptx/src/git/linux.git$ sudo sh -c "echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches"; time env GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM=1 HOME=/nonexistant XDG_CONFIG_HOME=/nonexistant git --no-pager show --no-color v5.2
> > tag v5.2
> > ...
> >
> > real 0m13.587s
> > user 0m0.335s
> > sys 0m0.336s
> >
> > Thanks
> > Uwe
>
> Have you checked strace output? I see a directory walk through .git/refs
> and .git/packed-refs if the output is not redirected.
That's a good point, 'git show/log' show decorations (refs pointing to
any commits shown) when the output is a terminal:
$ git show v5.2
[...]
commit 0ecfebd2b52404ae0c54a878c872bb93363ada36 (HEAD -> master, tag: v5.2)
[...]
$ git show v5.2 |cat
[...]
commit 0ecfebd2b52404ae0c54a878c872bb93363ada36
[...]
And indeed, if you have a lot of refs and cold cache, then that might
account for a couple of seconds difference. So, how does 'git show
--no-decorate v5.2' perform, and if it performs well, then how many
refs do you have ('git for-each-ref |wc -l')?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-27 9:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-27 8:15 git slow unless piped to cat Uwe Kleine-König
2019-08-27 8:41 ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-08-27 8:56 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2019-08-27 9:12 ` Philipp Zabel
2019-08-27 9:44 ` SZEDER Gábor [this message]
2019-08-27 10:04 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2019-08-27 10:33 ` SZEDER Gábor
2019-08-27 10:56 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2019-08-27 11:28 ` Michal Suchánek
2019-08-27 18:59 ` Jeff King
2019-08-27 21:32 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2019-08-27 21:38 ` Bryan Turner
2019-08-28 10:24 ` Uwe Kleine-König
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