Hi Joey On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Joey Hess <jo...@debian.org> wrote: > Felipe Sateler wrote: >> My setup is as follows: I have my annex on my laptop, and on the usb >> drive I have 2 annexes: a full backup annex, and an archive annex >> (BTW, why don't full backup annexes count as archive annexes?). I have >> some files archived, so the archive annex is not empty. I've noticed >> that some files are constantly being dropped and transferred (it >> appears that files in archives suffer from this problem, but not all >> though). I attach the log file. > > I have reproduced this loop. I did not realize there was a straight up > loop of get/drop in this situation in direct mode. The behavior in > indirect mode was much less annoying. > > Happily, I have managed to completely fix it, for direct mode repositories. > Files will only be dropped when all copes of them are unwanted, and > otherwise retained. > > I think I might be able to get away with closing this bug with this fix. > It seems likely that the continual thrashing made the startup scan take > longer than it would otherwise.
Great news! Thanks for fixing this. I've been thinking, could git-annex nice and ionice itself? I'm mostly a dummy user here, git-annex autostarts on boot, so I can't start it niced myself. This would also help with large annexes on slow drives. -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
