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Re: Size of the security-tracker repository

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Hi,

On 07/06/2026 21:24, Christoph Biedl wrote:
> This I can confirm, the auto-gc brought this down to 5.3G last night.
[...]
> Still, this is a lot worse than ealier: On April 7th the total size of
> .git/objects/ was just 1571M here - a day later things started to go
> downhill.

Interesting. Do you graph the .git usage somehow, and do you have more data?


I believe that Salsa is still sending very suboptimal packs over the 
network, which are then reused by the local Git.

'git gc --aggressive --keep-largest-pack' repacked the most recents 
packs from last week MUCH more efficiently (1.6GB -> 12MB), which tends 
to confirm this hypothesis.

'git gc --aggressive' is supposed to repack everything, but I'm not able 
to run it on my computer anymore at this currently OOMs at >20GB RAM, 
which means previous packs may stay fat and non-optimized forever.


> It's a bit saddening nothing has happened about this while everybody
> should have been aware this will not resolve by itself - but rather get
> worse over time :(

I also see that files >50MB now get a warning at GitHub (before getting 
rejected at >100MB), so with our data/CVE/list at 53MB we're starting to 
hit all kinds of hard limits, confirming we have to do something sooner 
than later.

Maybe this is something where the LTS Team can help with, let's wait for 
the bookworm LTS handover to take place this week, and I'll try and 
reach out to involved teams.

Cheers!
Sylvain Beucler
Debian LTS Team

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Size of the security-tracker repository Christoph Biedl <debian.axhn@manchmal.in-ulm.de> - 2026-06-04 19:40 +0200
  Re: Size of the security-tracker repository Sylvain Beucler <beuc@beuc.net> - 2026-06-06 09:10 +0200
    Re: Size of the security-tracker repository Christoph Biedl <debian.axhn@manchmal.in-ulm.de> - 2026-06-07 21:30 +0200
      Re: Size of the security-tracker repository Sylvain Beucler <beuc@beuc.net> - 2026-06-11 07:30 +0200
        Re: Size of the security-tracker repository Sylvain Beucler <beuc@beuc.net> - 2026-06-12 07:40 +0200

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