RStudio server is extremely slow when working on a project with git

[almogang]

Hello,

I have been experiencing annoying lag when running any command on RStudio on our server.

This does not occur when using RStudio outside a project, or using a project without git connection.

My .git folder in the project directory is around ~7GB which might be relevant.

However, I couldn't find a solution anywhere else.

Thanks,
Almog

[technocrat]

@almogang

My .git folder in the project directory is around ~7GB which might be relevant.

I have to believe that most of that is data. (Otherwise, that is one big codebase and a lot of revision history.) Consider creating a fresh project, copying everything over other than .git, and putting the large data objects in .gitignore. It feels like the slowness is from all the diffing.

[nirgrahamuk]

yes, git should only track code, its not appropriate (in a standard way) for data and especially large data. though there are extensions like Git Large File Storage (git-lfs.com)

[almogang]

I looked further into when this happens and seems like it's not the data files (they are already in .gitingnore).
This only happens after I use some function I made with lapply.

Anyway, thank you for the help.
I will close this post.