Re: [Gelato-technical] Re: Serious performance degradation on a RAID with kernel 2.6.10-bk7 and later

2005-04-21 Thread Stan Bubrouski
Luck, Tony wrote: Only a new user would have to pull the whole history ... and for most uses it is sufficient to just pull the current top of the tree. Linus' own tree only has a history going back to 2.6.12.-rc2 (when he started using git). Someday there might be a server daemon that can batch

RE: [Gelato-technical] Re: Serious performance degradation on a RAID with kernel 2.6.10-bk7 and later

2005-04-21 Thread Luck, Tony
>That said, is there any plan to change how this functions in the future >to solve these problems? I.e. have it not use so much diskspace and >thus use less bandwith. Am I misunderstanding in assuming that after >say 1000 commits go into the tree it could end up several megs or gigs >bigger?

Re: [Gelato-technical] Re: Serious performance degradation on a RAID with kernel 2.6.10-bk7 and later

2005-04-21 Thread Stan Bubrouski
Luck, Tony wrote: Yeah, I'm facing the same issue. I started playing with git last night. Apart from disk-space usage, it's very nice, though I really hope someone puts together a web-interface on top of git soon so we can seek what changed when and by whom. Disk space issues? A complete git

Re: [Gelato-technical] Re: Serious performance degradation on a RAID with kernel 2.6.10-bk7 and later

2005-04-21 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 10:33:29 -0700 David Mosberger wrote: | > On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 10:19:28 -0700, "Luck, Tony" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: | | >> I just checked 2.6.12-rc3 and the fls() fix is indeed missing. | >> Do you know what happened? | | Tony> If BitKeeper were still in use, I'd

RE: [Gelato-technical] Re: Serious performance degradation on a RAID with kernel 2.6.10-bk7 and later

2005-04-21 Thread David Mosberger
> On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 10:41:52 -0700, "Luck, Tony" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Tony> Disk space issues? A complete git repository of the Linux Tony> kernel with all changesets back to 2.4.0 takes just over 3G Tony> ... which is big compared to BK, but 3G of disk only costs Tony> about

RE: [Gelato-technical] Re: Serious performance degradation on a RAID with kernel 2.6.10-bk7 and later

2005-04-21 Thread Luck, Tony
>Yeah, I'm facing the same issue. I started playing with git last >night. Apart from disk-space usage, it's very nice, though I really >hope someone puts together a web-interface on top of git soon so we >can seek what changed when and by whom. Disk space issues? A complete git repository of

RE: [Gelato-technical] Re: Serious performance degradation on a RAID with kernel 2.6.10-bk7 and later

2005-04-21 Thread David Mosberger
> On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 10:19:28 -0700, "Luck, Tony" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> I just checked 2.6.12-rc3 and the fls() fix is indeed missing. >> Do you know what happened? Tony> If BitKeeper were still in use, I'd have dropped that patch Tony> into my "release" tree and asked Linus

RE: [Gelato-technical] Re: Serious performance degradation on a RAID with kernel 2.6.10-bk7 and later

2005-04-21 Thread Luck, Tony
>I just checked 2.6.12-rc3 and the fls() fix is indeed missing. Do you >know what happened? If BitKeeper were still in use, I'd have dropped that patch into my "release" tree and asked Linus to "pull" ... but it's not, and I was stalled. I should have a "git" tree up and running in the next

Re: [Gelato-technical] Re: Serious performance degradation on a RAID with kernel 2.6.10-bk7 and later

2005-04-21 Thread David Mosberger
Tony and Andrew, I just checked 2.6.12-rc3 and the fls() fix is indeed missing. Do you know what happened? --david > On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 13:30:50 +0200, Andreas Hirstius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: Andreas> Hi, The fls() patch from David solves the problem :-)) Andreas>

Re: [Gelato-technical] Re: Serious performance degradation on a RAID with kernel 2.6.10-bk7 and later

2005-04-21 Thread David Mosberger
Tony and Andrew, I just checked 2.6.12-rc3 and the fls() fix is indeed missing. Do you know what happened? --david On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 13:30:50 +0200, Andreas Hirstius [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Andreas Hi, The fls() patch from David solves the problem :-)) Andreas Do you have an

RE: [Gelato-technical] Re: Serious performance degradation on a RAID with kernel 2.6.10-bk7 and later

2005-04-21 Thread Luck, Tony
I just checked 2.6.12-rc3 and the fls() fix is indeed missing. Do you know what happened? If BitKeeper were still in use, I'd have dropped that patch into my release tree and asked Linus to pull ... but it's not, and I was stalled. I should have a git tree up and running in the next couple of

RE: [Gelato-technical] Re: Serious performance degradation on a RAID with kernel 2.6.10-bk7 and later

2005-04-21 Thread David Mosberger
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 10:19:28 -0700, Luck, Tony [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I just checked 2.6.12-rc3 and the fls() fix is indeed missing. Do you know what happened? Tony If BitKeeper were still in use, I'd have dropped that patch Tony into my release tree and asked Linus to pull ... but

RE: [Gelato-technical] Re: Serious performance degradation on a RAID with kernel 2.6.10-bk7 and later

2005-04-21 Thread Luck, Tony
Yeah, I'm facing the same issue. I started playing with git last night. Apart from disk-space usage, it's very nice, though I really hope someone puts together a web-interface on top of git soon so we can seek what changed when and by whom. Disk space issues? A complete git repository of the

RE: [Gelato-technical] Re: Serious performance degradation on a RAID with kernel 2.6.10-bk7 and later

2005-04-21 Thread David Mosberger
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 10:41:52 -0700, Luck, Tony [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Tony Disk space issues? A complete git repository of the Linux Tony kernel with all changesets back to 2.4.0 takes just over 3G Tony ... which is big compared to BK, but 3G of disk only costs Tony about $1 (for IDE

Re: [Gelato-technical] Re: Serious performance degradation on a RAID with kernel 2.6.10-bk7 and later

2005-04-21 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 10:33:29 -0700 David Mosberger wrote: | On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 10:19:28 -0700, Luck, Tony [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: | |I just checked 2.6.12-rc3 and the fls() fix is indeed missing. |Do you know what happened? | | Tony If BitKeeper were still in use, I'd have dropped

Re: [Gelato-technical] Re: Serious performance degradation on a RAID with kernel 2.6.10-bk7 and later

2005-04-21 Thread Stan Bubrouski
Luck, Tony wrote: Yeah, I'm facing the same issue. I started playing with git last night. Apart from disk-space usage, it's very nice, though I really hope someone puts together a web-interface on top of git soon so we can seek what changed when and by whom. Disk space issues? A complete git

RE: [Gelato-technical] Re: Serious performance degradation on a RAID with kernel 2.6.10-bk7 and later

2005-04-21 Thread Luck, Tony
That said, is there any plan to change how this functions in the future to solve these problems? I.e. have it not use so much diskspace and thus use less bandwith. Am I misunderstanding in assuming that after say 1000 commits go into the tree it could end up several megs or gigs bigger? If

Re: [Gelato-technical] Re: Serious performance degradation on a RAID with kernel 2.6.10-bk7 and later

2005-04-21 Thread Stan Bubrouski
Luck, Tony wrote: SNIP Only a new user would have to pull the whole history ... and for most uses it is sufficient to just pull the current top of the tree. Linus' own tree only has a history going back to 2.6.12.-rc2 (when he started using git). Someday there might be a server daemon that can