"H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > During extremely high load, it appears that what slows kernel.org down > more than anything else is the time that each individual getdents() > call takes. When I've looked this I've observed times from 200 ms to > almost 2 seconds! Since an unpacked *OR* unpruned git tree adds 256 > directories to a cleanly packed tree, you can do the math yourself.
Hmm... Perhaps it should be possible to push git updates as a pack file only? I mean, the pack file would stay packed = never individual files and never 256 directories? People aren't doing commit/etc. activity there, right? -- Krzysztof Halasa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
