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40%-85% cpu utilization

Robbie Blackwell

I have started noticing over the past couple of weeks that SourceTree is really hogging the CPU.

It's so bad that I'm getting periods of interruption that prevent me from doing anything. Moving mouse cursor, alt tabbing etc.

I only have 1 active repos with 2 branches (one dev, one production branch), fairly small I'd say, no significant development going on. My last commit only had 20 lines of code in one file.
One thing I notice, if it's of any relevance is a green loading type of animation on the left side, right above File Status, and beneath the Commit Push Pull buttons.

"Idle" activity is about 50% cpu.
I'm on version 2.3.1.0
But I feel like it's been like this after some recent update where during install it asked me to login to my atlassian account. I'm on a very old Core 2 Duo. But up until recently I've never had any problems. I don't have issues with other programs.

screen grab of task manager http://prntscr.com/gjyxx6

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minnsey

Hi

I don't know if the problems have occured when switching from a version 1.x to a version 2.x install?

Version 2.x makes use of libgit2 for a number of read actions on git repositories, rather than relying on the git.exe for all actions. A side effect of this change is that the git processing is now 'in-process' rather than being external and so will push up the memory and CPU usuage associated with Sourcetree. Previously some of this load would have been seen as due to git.exe.

Sourcetree will trigger git status updates if it detects changes to the filesystem. If there are build processes running that alter files within the git repo, Sourcetree will react.

Sourcetree attempts to limit this by ignoring changes to files covered by the .gitignore.

It is possible to turn off this file system watching in the Tools/Options/General tab.

It is also possible to disable libgit2 and revert to a pure git.exe approach in the Tools/Option/GIt tab.

Robbie Blackwell

I honestly don't remember when I installed 2x but I feel like I had a decent run on 2.x prior to my original post where I didn't have any problems.

The checkbox to disable libgit2 didn't seem to help me.

What is the exact name of the option in tools/options/general?

Sourcetree is virtually unusable for me right now.

Wen I do something as minor as changing the down menu in the file status tap from say pending, modified or untracked etc it's just virtually unusable. It is only using 30-40% cpu and my total load in task manager is usually below 60% the sourcetree window becomes unresponsive

It's just as bad if I have launched for the first time. I have to wait a few minutes before I can do anything.

http://prntscr.com/gtagof

Half the time if I click on tools or help, it will freeze up and say not responding before I can even click on an option.

Is it possible to download something a few versions earlier than 2.3.1.0?

Robbie Blackwell

I've uploaded a video of my user experience. This is basically from a fresh boot. The only other programs running are our office chat, and our phone dashboard utility.

https://youtu.be/q9LOlVcIHzk

minnsey

Hi,

Once the repo is open can you run the Repository/Benchmark Repo Performance option and post up the results using libgit2 and not using libgit2.

Also I notice you are using a very old version of Git 1.9.5, can you try upgrading that to 2.14 or above. You can do that in the Tools/Options/Git tab.
(This should give some performance improvement, but probably not a significant amount)

Nguyễn_Văn_Dũng

You can try delete folder .git in C:\Users\{YourUsers} if it exsisted. It work for me )))))

Simon Stockenreitner

I have solved it by updating git.

https://git-scm.com/

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