Very slow west update

RE: Very slow west update

Menon — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 11:48:45 GMT

Hello,

Yes, from the logs you shared, I can see frequent messages about auto-packing, which suggests that the auto-packing process is either running more often than necessary or is taking longer than expected. You can manually trigger Git's garbage collection to see if it resolves the issue. This might help consolidate some of the packing processes.

Refer to the Git documentation on git gc, and you might try running git gc --aggressive --prune=now. From the logs, I don’t see any issues related to the extension.

Kind regards,

Abhijith

RE: Very slow west update

Chris Pearson — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 16:20:27 GMT

No, there's no company firewall blocking this machine. All my internet activities seem to be normal.

The reinstall of the nRF Connect SDK (the toolchain and SDK code steps) were about what I expected for speed, as well. A few minutes, tops, and nothing like the hours the update was taking.

From my point of view, the problem seemed to be related to the excessive git garbage collection / auto packing of the repositories. Presumably this doesn't need to happen so many times during a single update. Unfortunately, not knowing the underlying system, that's about as far as I can guess. 🙂

RE: Very slow west update

Menon — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 13:13:15 GMT

Hello,

Are you inside any company firewall? It doesn't make sense that reinstalling is faster while the West update is slow. Have you noticed if the entire VSCode is running slowly?

I don't see any potential cause for the issue you've raised, but I might need to check this internally.

Kind regards,
Abhijith