[[!comment format=mdwn username="joey" subject="""comment 6""" date="2016-02-19T18:49:38Z" content=""" Also, around the time you filed this, there was a change which turned out to cause all files in the work tree to be read in full, and buffered in memory for some time. This may have to do with some of the slowdown you saw, especially since you have a lot of non-annexed files in the tree. I fixed that problem in commit b0081598c7c580d6760374c42765e94e4750e793. """]]