Comment 17 for bug 736001

I've just been bitten by this when pulling down a set of changes to a large Git repo (16k revisions). Repacking took 37 minutes on a MacBook Pro with 2.5GHz 8GB RAM.

648.407 Auto-packing repository GCRepositoryPackCollection(CHKInventoryRepository('file:///Users/bsd/Manumitting/Projects/e4/.bzr/repository/')), which has 28
pack files, containing 28102 revisions. Packing 21 files into 1 affecting 21102 revisions
648.776 repacking 21102 revisions
726.003 repacking 21102 inventories
875.144 repacking chk: 21093 id_to_entry roots, 3558 p_id_map roots, 160508 total keys
2125.787 repacking 105322 texts
2608.808 repacking 0 signatures
2638.929 Auto-packing repository GCRepositoryPackCollection(CHKInventoryRepository('file:///Users/bsd/Manumitting/Projects/e4/.bzr/repository/')) completed
2643.960 Packing repository GCRepositoryPackCollection(CHKInventoryRepository('file:///Users/bsd/Manumitting/Projects/e4/.bzr/repository/')), which has 8 pack files, containing 28102 revisions with hint ['58d32c698f0f21f898dfdd77332f3234', '6994968d782e2e28d45db4545de9fd87', '73b643691d3cbebe29b2c64486a462f2'].
2644.338 repacking 21102 revisions
2657.347 repacking 21102 inventories
2677.471 repacking chk: 21093 id_to_entry roots, 3558 p_id_map roots, 160508 total keys
2788.576 repacking 105322 texts
2885.674 repacking 0 signatures

I plan to install John's plugin too :-/