GitBlitGo hangs while loading git repos

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Originally reported on Google Code with ID 103

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. use 0.9.3 version of gitblitGO
2. change gitblit properties to point on single folder with many git repos
3.start server
4. connect to gitblit url - it will hang (for 2d)

It looks like scan of git folders going in the main thread and web browser hangs waiting
for reply.

We have ~140 git repos, where every single repo is big (linux kernel source). The layout
is as following:

/projects/git/xxxx/xxxx1.git
/projects/git/xxxx/xxxx2.git
/projects/git/yyyy/yyyy1.git
/projects/git/zzzz1.git
...

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
0.9.3 GO, RHEL 6.2

Is there any way to see what gitblit doing (progress/log) in GO edition?

Is that possible to configure what repo to include/exclude?

git.repoIncludeRegex=xxxx.*\.git yyyy*\.git
git.repoExcludeRegex=zzzz*\.git

Reported by mike.dubman on 2012-06-28 06:54:07

[gitblit]

The first thing I would try is disabling repository size reporting and the activity
graph:

web.showRepositorySizes = false
web.generateActivityGraph = false

If those don't help (especially size), I would build from master and play with JGit's
runtime parameters which have been exposed as settings (issue 389).

Actually, maybe you should just skip to building from master.

Reported by James.Moger on 2012-06-28 11:38:49

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Thanks for quick reply.

>web.showRepositorySizes = false
>web.generateActivityGraph = false

did not help

Reported by mike.dubman on 2012-06-28 13:47:05

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Have you built from master and tweaked the JGit parameters?

Reported by James.Moger on 2012-07-05 12:23:36

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nope, used release 0.9.3 and tweaked gitblit.properties
what Jgit params should be tweaked and where?
Thanks

Reported by mike.dubman on 2012-07-05 13:01:43

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To tweak JGit's parameters you will have to build from master; this is a new feature
in the upcoming 1.0.0 release.

Reported by James.Moger on 2012-07-05 13:05:25

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1.0.0 release is imminent - Thursday or Friday - in case you have not yet built from
source.

Reported by James.Moger on 2012-07-11 21:39:03

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Hi, I will continue with Mike integration of gitBlit in our development environment.

First of all, I've upgraded version of gitBlit from 0.9.3 to 1.0.0.
When I start the gitBlit  the process hang, I see it in the system call:
#strace -p 5072
Process 5072 attached - interrupt to quit
futex(0x7f810161d9d0, FUTEX_WAIT, 5073, NULL
And browser is hanging too.

I try to twink JGit params and set them x4. After restarting I see same problem, process
of java hanging and no system calls.

Do you have some recommendation about gitBlit tuning for "big dev environments ?"


Thank you. 

Reported by adm101n on 2012-07-19 12:22:59

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Sorry, I don't have any recommendations/experience with big dev environments; they were
not my focus.

I think you should clone the Gitblit source and run it in Eclipse to diagnose where
the trouble lies.  Otherwise we are just guessing.

Reported by James.Moger on 2012-07-19 13:14:33

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Hi All,
I found the root issue of our environment.

 We have more then hundred git repository on one volume, few are in root of git repository
( ../../git/some_repo.git ) , but more in subfolder ( ../../git/some_folder/some_repo.git
or ../../git/some_folder/../some_repo.git ).
When I start gitblit with git.searchRepositoriesSubfolders = false; gitblit starts
to work after 1 min. But when git.searchRepositoriesSubfolders = true, it isn't start
after 4 hours.

How I can limit gitblit searching of repositories, for example not deeper then 3 folders,
under git.repositoriesFolder ?

2-nd issue, gitblit starts to search repos in invisible folder: .snapshot. Of course
I don't have links to files under .snapshot and this folder is from NetApp.
How I can exclude the .snapshot from git repository searching.

Thank you.

Reported by adm101n on 2012-07-31 14:22:32

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At the moment you will have to hack on Gitblit to support either of these scenarios.

Reported by James.Moger on 2012-07-31 14:27:49