Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Re: linus talk on git

[Matt Johnston]

On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 09:41:05PM +0200, Pavel Cahyna wrote:
> 
> I also observe very poor scaling down of the status command. I have a
> workspace with 17507 files. There is a subdirectory with 17 files. In this
> subdirectory:
> 
> $ time mtn status .
> (...)
>    71.72s real    68.37s user     0.81s system
> 
> $ time mtn status
> (...)
>    91.40s real    85.19s user     1.78s system
> 
> For comparison: the same 17 files, from a CVS repository. cvs has to
> contact a remote server across the Atlantic.
> 
> $ time cvs status
> (...)
>     8.70s real     0.14s user     0.09s system
> 
> This is lame. Why should status of 17 files take almost the same time as
> status of 17507 files?

Is inodeprints enabled for that workspace? ("mtn refresh_inodeprints".)
How large are the files/database? 

Matt