git-commit command execute very slowly

[jonathan]

In the ecryptfs directory, following git-command is executed:

  > git clone git@myserver:/home/repos/android4.1.git
  > cd android4.1
  > mkdir test1
  > echo "hello" > test1/readme
  > git add test1
  > git commit -m"add test1"

   git-commit is completed about 5 minutes.

   However if in the no-ecryptfs directory, git-commit is completed about 20 seconds.

 ProblemType: Bug
 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 ( Ubuntu12.04.2)
 Uname: Linux 2.6.32-40-generic x86_64 (Linux3.2.0-32-generic)
 Architecture: amd64
 EcryptfsInUse: Yes
 Git version: 1.7.5.4
 Android version: 4.1

[Nick Murtagh (nickm-go2)]

git status and git rebase can also be very slow - anything that forces git to read files from disk. Once those files are cached in RAM everything is nice and fast again.

I don't remember this being an issue when I first installed 12.04 so perhaps performance degraded over time (does ecryptfs suffer from fragmentation) or something changed in a subsequent update? Not 100% sure on this though, I'd have to reinstall 12.04 to check.

I'm currently on 3.2.0-41-generic-pae.