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The gogit backend defaulted to one blob reader and one history worker, so it left most cores idle. On an 18-core M5 Max it took 6.3 s to scan cargo's history, slower than the 3.57 s the README reports for an 8-core M1 Pro.
This PR changes the defaults:
--gogit-memory-index and --gogit-mmap are now on. On platforms without mmap support, such as Windows, go-billy falls back to regular reads.
--readers=0 now means GOMAXPROCS for both backends, instead of 1 for gogit.
--history-workers now defaults to 0, meaning GOMAXPROCS capped at 8.
The memory index is what makes the extra workers pay off. Without it, adding workers slowed the scan down: with 8 history workers, the legal-discovery stage went from 3.1 s to 6.3 s and CPU time from 16 s to 70 s. With it, workers scale even when mmap is off.
Measurements
All on an M5 Max (6P+12E cores), cargo history to a07c49a (23,683 commits, 1.42 GB of blobs), scan with default flags:
wall
CPU
cores busy
max RSS
gogit, old defaults
6.31 s
15.8 s
2.5
550 MiB
gogit, new defaults
1.50 s
13.3 s
8.9
900 MiB
gogit, new defaults, GOMAXPROCS=8
2.06 s
gogit, GOMAXPROCS=1, old → new
13.3 s → 10.1 s
git backend (unchanged)
1.63 s
14.7 s
9.0
320 MiB*
* largest single process only; the git cat-file children aren't summed.
On this repo, results flatten out at 4 to 8 workers for both stages, and 18 history workers ran slightly slower (about 1.56 s against 1.49 s), hence the cap at 8.
Memory use rises by about 350 MiB on this repo, mostly from the in-memory pack index. That is still well under the native backend's process-tree peak.
Verification
go vet ./... and go test ./... pass.
scan output is identical across the old git backend, the new git backend and the new gogit backend, ignoring timing lines. log output is identical across both backends.
The README's performance section now uses M5 Max measurements: five-run averages of scan with default flags, and peak RSS summed across the whole process tree. The native backend now peaks at 3.81 GiB because it starts one git cat-file per core (18 here, 8 on the M1 Pro), so the README notes that --readers limits it.
The gogit backend now enables in-memory pack indexes and memory-mapped pack files by default where supported.
Blob reading automatically uses up to available CPU capacity. History processing automatically uses up to eight workers, based on available CPU capacity.
Configuration
Positive reader and history-worker settings remain configurable. Use the reader limit to manage memory use, which can grow with the number of readers in the native backend.
Load pack indexes into memory and memory-map pack files by default, and
size blob readers (GOMAXPROCS) and history workers (GOMAXPROCS, at most 8)
from the machine instead of running one of each. Without the in-memory
index, extra workers contend on index reads and get slower, which is why
the old single-worker defaults were safe but left most cores idle.
On an 18-core M5 Max scanning cargo's history, the gogit backend drops
from 6.31 s to 1.50 s with identical output.
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The go-git backend now enables in-memory pack indexes and memory mapping by default. Blob readers default to GOMAXPROCS, while history workers default to the lower of GOMAXPROCS and eight. The feeders and history traversal select processing paths using those resolved counts. The README updates backend settings and benchmark results.
Changes: Go-git backend defaults
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Summary
Backend defaults and blob-reader selection main.go, gogit_tuning.go, README.md, gogit_tuning_test.go
The memory-index and mmap defaults are enabled. Blob-reader counts resolve to a positive configured value or GOMAXPROCS. The feeders use that count to select processing. The README documents backend settings, reader-related memory growth, and updated benchmark results. Tuning tests exercise explicit memory-index and mmap settings.
History worker resolution and traversal gogit_history_parallel.go, gogit_history_stream.go, gogit_history_parallel_test.go, gogit_history_test.go
History workers default to zero, which resolves to the lower of GOMAXPROCS and eight. History traversal uses the resolved count to select sequential or parallel processing. Tests cover worker-count resolution and traversal, and the test helper preserves an explicitly supplied worker setting.
No merge-blocking issue was identified in the new defaults or worker selection.
Security architecture risk: Low · up to 2ccd4
The new defaults increase parallelism and memory use. Command options allow reverting to conservative settings, and no new privilege expansion or access-control bypass was identified. Behavior under memory pressure and across platforms remains incompletely verified.
Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.
Security review details
Security Blast Radius
inferred — The demonstrated exposure is resource consumption in the process scanning a selected repository: repository contents determine index size, while automatic readers follow the process concurrency setting. The inspected change does not establish remote reachability, cross-tenant authority, or credential access.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — Blob-size controls remain applied before blob processing, and legal-discovery or feeder failures propagate to scan failure. These controls address oversized individual blobs and ordinary read failures; they do not impose an aggregate pack-index memory budget.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
observed — Parallel blob workers own their object readers, cancel work on reported reader failures, and are joined before repository closure. Automatic history concurrency has an eight-worker ceiling, but automatic blob-reader concurrency has no corresponding fixed ceiling.
Hardening Proposals
proposed — For automation scanning untrusted or unusually large repositories, document a resource-constrained invocation profile using explicit concurrency settings and optional memory-index disabling, together with an external process memory limit. This is containment guidance, not a verified vulnerability finding.
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Re-measured on an 18-core M5 Max: five-run averages of scan with default
flags, with peak RSS summed across the process tree.
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The
gogitbackend defaulted to one blob reader and one history worker, so it left most cores idle. On an 18-core M5 Max it took 6.3 s to scan cargo's history, slower than the 3.57 s the README reports for an 8-core M1 Pro.This PR changes the defaults:
--gogit-memory-indexand--gogit-mmapare now on. On platforms without mmap support, such as Windows, go-billy falls back to regular reads.--readers=0now meansGOMAXPROCSfor both backends, instead of 1 forgogit.--history-workersnow defaults to 0, meaningGOMAXPROCScapped at 8.The memory index is what makes the extra workers pay off. Without it, adding workers slowed the scan down: with 8 history workers, the legal-discovery stage went from 3.1 s to 6.3 s and CPU time from 16 s to 70 s. With it, workers scale even when mmap is off.
Measurements
All on an M5 Max (6P+12E cores), cargo history to
a07c49a(23,683 commits, 1.42 GB of blobs),scanwith default flags:GOMAXPROCS=8GOMAXPROCS=1, old → new* largest single process only; the
git cat-filechildren aren't summed.On this repo, results flatten out at 4 to 8 workers for both stages, and 18 history workers ran slightly slower (about 1.56 s against 1.49 s), hence the cap at 8.
Memory use rises by about 350 MiB on this repo, mostly from the in-memory pack index. That is still well under the native backend's process-tree peak.
Verification
go vet ./...andgo test ./...pass.scanoutput is identical across the old git backend, the new git backend and the new gogit backend, ignoring timing lines.logoutput is identical across both backends.The README's performance section now uses M5 Max measurements: five-run averages of
scanwith default flags, and peak RSS summed across the whole process tree. The native backend now peaks at 3.81 GiB because it starts onegit cat-fileper core (18 here, 8 on the M1 Pro), so the README notes that--readerslimits it.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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gogitbackend now enables in-memory pack indexes and memory-mapped pack files by default where supported.