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perf(server,web): Expand all shares Git ignore checks across folder reads (138 s → 24 s on Windows) - #31231
"Expand all" in the Files panel lists every folder of the project, one projects.listEntries request per folder, and the server labels each folder's children with its own git check-ignore -z --stdin process. A full checkout of this repository (4,646 folders) starts 4,644 Git processes. On Windows each one lives about 60 ms (median, as seen from the server) and each spawn() blocks the Node thread for about 8 ms, so the server-side work behind one Expand all takes about 2 minutes: 138.4 s here (median, n=7).
The two halves of this limit each other. The web client keeps four reads in flight, so the server never holds more than four folders and has nothing to share. Letting the client ask for more does not help alone: with 64 reads in flight on main the service still took 109.1 s (min 99.9 s, n=5), because every extra read still starts its own process.
Change
Client (useDirectoryEntries.ts): keeps 64 folder reads in flight instead of 4. This also applies to its refreshes. The mobile client has its own scheduler and is unchanged.
Server (workspaceIgnoreChecks.ts, used by WorkspaceEntries.list): every git check-ignore call of a listing, including nested-repository probes and the check of a very wide folder, counts toward a limit of four per workspace.
A check that finds a free slot runs in the listing's own fiber, as today. It has nothing to share with, because a free slot means nothing is waiting.
A check that arrives while four run waits. When a slot frees, everything waiting for the same Git root goes out in one call, capped at today's 1,000 paths. Git echoes each ignored path as given (-z, no -v), so each folder takes back its own. Identical checks that can't be split, such as a nested-repository probe from several listings, share one call.
Folders reached through a symlink never share a call, because Git refuses every path beyond a symlink.
Nothing is cached or reused: every call starts after all of its folders were read, so an edit to a .gitignore, info/exclude or core.excludesFile, an index change or a new nested repository is seen by the next call, as now. The RPC and its results are unchanged.
Remaining behaviour differences:
A shared call that Git refuses (one path inside an unchecked-out submodule fails the whole call) or that times out is asked again folder by folder, within the limit of four. Each folder then gets exactly the call it gets today, and fails the way it fails today. This costs one extra call per failed shared call, and up to 10 s when that call timed out.
A workspace whose folder isn't a repository fails its shared calls the same way, so it makes those extra calls too.
A defect in a shared call fails every listing waiting on it. On main a defect fails only the listing that hit it.
A waiting listing that is interrupted leaves the queue and never reaches Git. A shared call is interrupted only when all of its listings have left.
Two clients expanding one workspace share the limit of four. On main each would run its own.
A new web client talking to a server without this change keeps 64 reads in flight against main's server: 109.1 s against 105.2 s at 4 reads in one series (n=5 each), but one workspace can then take all 8 of the server's Git slots during Expand all, where today it takes at most 4.
Scope and approval
No issue or discussion exists for this change, and none is linked. It changes how many Git processes Expand all starts and how much the client asks for at once, so I'm not claiming the "very small, obvious fix" exception in CONTRIBUTING.md. I'm opening it so the direction can be judged on the code and the numbers. If you'd rather discuss it first, or keep only part of it, I'm happy to close or split it.
Both halves are one PR because they are one fix: the server half gives nothing with today's client, and the client half alone gives nothing with today's server.
Service boundary: a script drives the real WorkspaceEntries and WorkspacePaths layers, the real filesystem and real Git through VcsProcess and processRunner, and replays the client's traversal (a folder's children are requested when its listing returns; ignored folders are not entered) with N reads in flight. Windows 11, Git for Windows 2.47.0 (mingw64\bin\git.exe), Node 26.12.1, below-normal priority, a checkout of 9e85538 (4,646 folders, 36,215 entries, no ignored entries), sides alternating. The machine had unrelated load.
What users would see, main at today's 4 reads against this PR at 64 reads:
main, 4 reads
this PR, 64 reads
Median (n=7)
138.4 s
24.1 s
Minimum
113.8 s
19.2 s
Git processes
4,644
579 to 718
Event-loop utilisation
0.87
0.82
The digest of every (path, kind, ignored) triple matched in all 14 runs.
The server half alone at 4 reads: instrumented runs show the same calls as main: 4,644 of 4,644 checks found a free slot and ran in the listing's own fiber, none waited, none was shared, and at most three calls were running when each check arrived (two runs). So the only added work per call is a map lookup and a counter. Timed, on this machine:
Series (full tree, alternating)
Pairs
main median (min)
other side median (min)
Median paired difference
Wilcoxon p
main against this PR
10
125.6 s (99.4 s)
142.1 s (95.8 s)
+12.6 %
0.037
main against this PR, repeated
8
107.4 s (81.5 s)
107.3 s (91.5 s)
-3.8 %
0.64
Control: main against identical main
8
99.8 s (78.7 s)
89.4 s (66.9 s)
-5.9 %
0.055
The two series of this PR pooled give +10.7 % over 18 pairs (p=0.27). The control shows identical code differing by about 10 % in medians at about the same significance, so these series cannot separate this PR from main at that size: I found no slowdown beyond this machine's noise, and I can't rule out one below about 10 %. Time per tenth of the run shows no growth over a run on either side. The apps/ subtree alone (483 folders, 20 pairs, an earlier revision of this change at 4 reads) gave 15.7 s against 16.0 s (p=0.43).
Correctness: the same checkout seeded with ignored, negated (!.env.example), info/excluded, core.excludesFiled and tracked-but-ignored entries (two with --assume-unchanged and --skip-worktree), names with spaces, Unicode and a leading # or !, a long path, a 1,800-file folder, an ignored 1,100-file folder, a submodule with its own rules, a nested clone, a gitlink with no checkout and two directory junctions. Every (path, kind, ignored) triple matched main at 64 reads, for the Expand-all traversal (44,912 entries, 5,785 ignored) and a traversal that also lists inside ignored folders (46,436 entries, 7,309 ignored), before and after editing the root and twenty nested .gitignore files, info/exclude and core.excludesFile (5,166 and 6,690 ignored afterwards; 633 labels changed). After the edits they also matched main at 4 reads. Git calls on the Expand-all traversal before the edits: 5,183 on main, 997 with this PR. Exits of 128: 65 and 13.
What the browser adds, measured after opening this PR. The numbers above stop at the service boundary. In the repo's browser harness (dev-build React, mock transport, generated tree, medians of 5 alternating pairs), a client on this branch with an instantly answering server takes 28.9 s from click to last paint at 4,646 folders and 64 reads, with a longest main-thread task of 4.7 s (9.0 s at worst). At today's 4 reads it takes 81.8 s with a longest task of 0.71 s. With a server paced at 5 ms per listing, close to this PR's 24 s, the user waits about 56 s with a 2.5 s longest task. So 138 s -> 24 s is the service time, not what the user sees, and on its own this PR trades a slower Expand all for one that finishes sooner but freezes the window for seconds at a time on very large trees. The cost is in FileBrowserPanel.tsx, not in this PR's code: two listeners rescan every folder on each tree event. #31463 fixes that (28.9 s -> 4.1 s, longest task 0.22 s; 56 s -> 35 s paced), and this PR should land with it or after it.
New tests.workspaceIgnoreChecks.test.ts uses a fake Git that answers when the test says so, so each state is reached deterministically (the module is new, so these can't fail on main):
Listings that leave before their call starts never reach Git, listings that leave mid-call stop their Git process, and later listings still get answers, so interruption leaks no slot.
A defect in a shared call fails its listings instead of leaving them waiting, other listings still finish, and a later listing is served.
If the service closes while checks wait, those listings end instead of waiting forever.
A timed-out or refused shared call asks each of its 12 folders again alone, with at most four calls at once.
Identical unsplittable checks share one call, and different ones don't.
WorkspaceEntries.test.ts uses real Git, with calls held until four have started:
12 folders get the right labels with at most four calls running and fewer calls than folders (fails on main: 12 at once).
One unchecked-out gitlink among 40 folders keeps every label within four calls (fails on main: nothing shared).
24 folders of a non-repository stay within four calls (fails on main: 24 at once).
A submodule's folders listed with the outer repository's get their own rules, calls never mix the two roots, and identical sub/.git probes share calls (fails on main).
A .gitignore edit between two listings applies to the second (passes on main; a guard against stale labels).
vp lint, vp fmt --check, vp run typecheck in apps/server and apps/web, and WorkspaceEntries.test.ts, workspaceIgnoreChecks.test.ts and WorkspaceFileSystem.test.ts pass on Windows (seven of these tests are skipped on Windows). One earlier run failed once in an unrelated search test, with EBUSY deleting its temporary folder.
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Remote and relay connections at 64 reads in flight.
Latency of other work during Expand all, such as a second workspace's git status. One workspace's ignore checks stay within 4 of the server's 8 Git slots, as today, but this is not measured.
The service on macOS and Linux. A Linux model of the policy (plain Node, real Git, same arguments, WSL ext4, n=5, an earlier revision) took 19.6 s (min 18.7 s) at 4 reads on main and 10.5 s (min 9.5 s) at 64 with bounded shared calls; it leaves out the server's per-process overhead.
Timing with ignored entries: the timing checkout has none, so timed runs never skip an ignored folder. The seeded runs were not timed under exclusive conditions.
Real Windows symlinks (only directory junctions were available), network drives, LongPathsEnabled=0.
Expand all lists every folder and labels each folder's children with its
own `git check-ignore` process. Every ignore check of a listing now counts
toward a limit of four per workspace. A check that finds a free slot runs
in the listing's own fiber, as it always did. Checks that arrive while four
run wait and go out together in the next call (one Git root, at most 1,000
paths); identical checks that can't be split, such as nested-repository
probes, share one call.
A shared call that Git refuses or that times out is asked again folder by
folder through the same limit. Folders reached through a symlink never
share a call. Waiting checks whose listings all left never reach Git, and a
call whose listings all left is interrupted. A call's finalizer frees its
slot and completes its listings on any exit; a defect fails those listings,
as it fails a listing's own call. Nothing is reused: every call starts after
all of its checks arrived.
With four reads in flight the server never holds more than four folders,
so it can't share their Git ignore checks. Keeping 64 in flight lets Expand
all use the shared calls: 138.4 s -> 24.1 s for this repository on Windows
at the service boundary (medians, n=7).
Workspace listings now queue and batch eligible Git ignore checks, with up to four checks running per workspace. The browser directory-entry hook now allows up to 64 folder reads in flight.
Changes: Workspace Listing Concurrency
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Queue scheduling and result handling apps/server/src/workspace/workspaceIgnoreChecks.ts, apps/server/src/workspace/workspaceIgnoreChecks.test.ts
The queue batches shareable checks with matching Git working directories, up to 1,000 paths per batch, and limits each workspace to four concurrent checks. Tests cover interruption and service closure.
WorkspaceEntries sends ignore checks to the queue and marks checks reached through symlinks as non-shareable. Tests cover batching, Git roots, refused submodule paths, and ignored-file labels.
sequenceDiagram
participant WorkspaceEntries
participant makeIgnoreCheckQueue
participant GitCheckIgnore
WorkspaceEntries->>makeIgnoreCheckQueue: Submit workspace and path checks
makeIgnoreCheckQueue->>GitCheckIgnore: Run batched check-ignore call
GitCheckIgnore-->>makeIgnoreCheckQueue: Return exit code and stdout
makeIgnoreCheckQueue-->>WorkspaceEntries: Return results or retry checks individually
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The change makes folder listing much faster at the service level, but the file browser can still freeze for several seconds on large trees until its rescan fix lands. The new server tests may also fail intermittently depending on timing. Land the panel fix alongside this change and tighten the test barrier before merging.
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Keep the 64-read requirement independent from the production constant.
The fixture and assertions currently import FOLDER_READS_IN_FLIGHT. A regression from 64 to 4 would therefore change both the exercised workload and the expected result, allowing the test to pass. Use a test-owned expected value so the test fails when the production limit is reduced.
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In the “retains the query concurrency bound across directories and refreshes”
test, make the expected concurrency limit an independent test-owned value of 64
rather than importing FOLDER_READS_IN_FLIGHT. Use that value for the folder
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directories and refreshes” test, make the expected concurrency limit an
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A correction to this PR's headline: 138 s -> 24 s is the service time, not what the user waits for. I've now measured the browser side and updated the description.
At 4,646 folders and 64 reads with an instant server, click to last paint takes 28.9 s, and the longest main-thread task is 4.7 s (9.0 s at worst), against 0.71 s at today's 4 reads. With a server paced close to this PR's, the user waits about 56 s. So on its own this PR can freeze the window for seconds at a time on very large trees, so please don't merge it without the fix below.
The cost isn't in this PR's code. Two listeners in FileBrowserPanel.tsx rescan every folder on each tree event, which is quadratic and exists on main today: 81.8 s at 4 reads with an instant server. I have a fix ready (28.9 s -> 4.1 s, longest task 0.22 s) and will send it as its own PR, since it helps on every platform without this one.
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Drops the cases another kept test already covers: refused calls, non-repository folders, identical probes, dead calls, and rule edits between listings.
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Minor · Release the Git barrier only after queued overlap is established. · WorkspaceEntries.test.ts:107
apps/server/src/workspace/WorkspaceEntries.test.ts:107 Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Release the Git barrier only after queued overlap is established.
The barrier releases when the fourth check-ignore call starts. Listings that are still in filesystem work can reach the queue after a slot frees. Those listings run alone, which is valid, so correct code can issue one Git call per folder. Line 403, the mixed ghost batch at lines 428-430, and the shared sub/.git probe at lines 476-477 require at least two listings to queue together. Their results depend on timing. mostRunning at lines 402, 432, and 479 stays deterministic because the barrier holds four calls at once.
Hold the first calls until queued checks are observed. Alternatively, move the sharing assertions to workspaceIgnoreChecks.test.ts. That file already drives makeIgnoreCheckQueue with an explicit Queue of started calls and Deferred outcomes, so the sharing milestones can be asserted directly there. Keep the service-level label assertions in this file.
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Make the overlap assertions deterministic: in the test using `Deferred.doneUnsafe(fourStarted, Effect.void)`, keep the initial Git calls blocked until queued checks are observed, so the mixed ghost batch and shared `sub/.git` probe verify actual overlap. Alternatively, move those queue-sharing assertions to `workspaceIgnoreChecks.test.ts` and use its explicit `Queue` and `Deferred` controls; keep service-level label assertions in `WorkspaceEntries.test.ts`.
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Review comments at @apps/web/src/components/files/useDirectoryEntries.ts:
- Around line 40-41: Update FileBrowserPanel’s directory-path and ignored-status
derivation so each directory listing completion does not trigger full scans of
all loaded entries and paths; use incremental updates or equivalent bounded
processing while preserving the existing expansion and status behavior.
Memoizing buildTreeEntries alone is insufficient because directoryEntries
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- Line 107: Make the overlap assertions deterministic: in the test using
`Deferred.doneUnsafe(fourStarted, Effect.void)`, keep the initial Git calls
blocked until queued checks are observed, so the mixed ghost batch and shared
`sub/.git` probe verify actual overlap. Alternatively, move those queue-sharing
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`Deferred` controls; keep service-level label assertions in
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Major · Performance & Scalability · Heavy lift
Land the FileBrowserPanel.tsx rescan fix with this change; do not merge the 64-read limit alone.
This revision leaves FileBrowserPanel.tsx unchanged. Each folder listing that completes calls setDirectories in useDirectoryEntries.ts, which re-renders the panel. The panel rebuilds entries and directoryPaths on every render (FileBrowserPanel.tsx:181-182, 119-146). Both arrays change identity each time, so the effects that depend on them run again. The expansion effect (352-386) loops over every directory path. The ignored-status effect (387-397) rebuilds the git status list from every entry. The work per completion grows with the number of loaded entries. A limit of 64 lets more completions arrive together, which can lengthen these main-thread tasks. The 4.7 s and 9.0 s figures are the author's reported measurements.
Memoizing buildTreeEntries alone does not remove this work, because each completion changes directoryEntries. The fix needs incremental updates to the derived directory paths and git status, or an equivalent bounded processing step.
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Update FileBrowserPanel’s directory-path and ignored-status derivation so each directory listing completion does not trigger full scans of all loaded entries and paths; use incremental updates or equivalent bounded processing while preserving the existing expansion and status behavior. Memoizing buildTreeEntries alone is insufficient because directoryEntries changes on each completion.
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Problem
"Expand all" in the Files panel lists every folder of the project, one
projects.listEntriesrequest per folder, and the server labels each folder's children with its owngit check-ignore -z --stdinprocess. A full checkout of this repository (4,646 folders) starts 4,644 Git processes. On Windows each one lives about 60 ms (median, as seen from the server) and eachspawn()blocks the Node thread for about 8 ms, so the server-side work behind one Expand all takes about 2 minutes: 138.4 s here (median, n=7).The two halves of this limit each other. The web client keeps four reads in flight, so the server never holds more than four folders and has nothing to share. Letting the client ask for more does not help alone: with 64 reads in flight on main the service still took 109.1 s (min 99.9 s, n=5), because every extra read still starts its own process.
Change
Client (
useDirectoryEntries.ts): keeps 64 folder reads in flight instead of 4. This also applies to its refreshes. The mobile client has its own scheduler and is unchanged.Server (
workspaceIgnoreChecks.ts, used byWorkspaceEntries.list): everygit check-ignorecall of a listing, including nested-repository probes and the check of a very wide folder, counts toward a limit of four per workspace.-z, no-v), so each folder takes back its own. Identical checks that can't be split, such as a nested-repository probe from several listings, share one call.Nothing is cached or reused: every call starts after all of its folders were read, so an edit to a
.gitignore,info/excludeorcore.excludesFile, an index change or a new nested repository is seen by the next call, as now. The RPC and its results are unchanged.Remaining behaviour differences:
Scope and approval
No issue or discussion exists for this change, and none is linked. It changes how many Git processes Expand all starts and how much the client asks for at once, so I'm not claiming the "very small, obvious fix" exception in
CONTRIBUTING.md. I'm opening it so the direction can be judged on the code and the numbers. If you'd rather discuss it first, or keep only part of it, I'm happy to close or split it.Both halves are one PR because they are one fix: the server half gives nothing with today's client, and the client half alone gives nothing with today's server.
Verification
Rows and scripts: https://gist.github.com/Pyseph/a434b8245cc243cdf1f9fe2c986c407c (start with
timing-v2-summary.txt).Service boundary: a script drives the real
WorkspaceEntriesandWorkspacePathslayers, the real filesystem and real Git throughVcsProcessandprocessRunner, and replays the client's traversal (a folder's children are requested when its listing returns; ignored folders are not entered) with N reads in flight. Windows 11, Git for Windows 2.47.0 (mingw64\bin\git.exe), Node 26.12.1, below-normal priority, a checkout of 9e85538 (4,646 folders, 36,215 entries, no ignored entries), sides alternating. The machine had unrelated load.What users would see, main at today's 4 reads against this PR at 64 reads:
The digest of every (path, kind, ignored) triple matched in all 14 runs.
The server half alone at 4 reads: instrumented runs show the same calls as main: 4,644 of 4,644 checks found a free slot and ran in the listing's own fiber, none waited, none was shared, and at most three calls were running when each check arrived (two runs). So the only added work per call is a map lookup and a counter. Timed, on this machine:
The two series of this PR pooled give +10.7 % over 18 pairs (p=0.27). The control shows identical code differing by about 10 % in medians at about the same significance, so these series cannot separate this PR from main at that size: I found no slowdown beyond this machine's noise, and I can't rule out one below about 10 %. Time per tenth of the run shows no growth over a run on either side. The
apps/subtree alone (483 folders, 20 pairs, an earlier revision of this change at 4 reads) gave 15.7 s against 16.0 s (p=0.43).Correctness: the same checkout seeded with ignored, negated (
!.env.example),info/excluded,core.excludesFiled and tracked-but-ignored entries (two with--assume-unchangedand--skip-worktree), names with spaces, Unicode and a leading#or!, a long path, a 1,800-file folder, an ignored 1,100-file folder, a submodule with its own rules, a nested clone, a gitlink with no checkout and two directory junctions. Every (path, kind, ignored) triple matched main at 64 reads, for the Expand-all traversal (44,912 entries, 5,785 ignored) and a traversal that also lists inside ignored folders (46,436 entries, 7,309 ignored), before and after editing the root and twenty nested.gitignorefiles,info/excludeandcore.excludesFile(5,166 and 6,690 ignored afterwards; 633 labels changed). After the edits they also matched main at 4 reads. Git calls on the Expand-all traversal before the edits: 5,183 on main, 997 with this PR. Exits of 128: 65 and 13.What the browser adds, measured after opening this PR. The numbers above stop at the service boundary. In the repo's browser harness (dev-build React, mock transport, generated tree, medians of 5 alternating pairs), a client on this branch with an instantly answering server takes 28.9 s from click to last paint at 4,646 folders and 64 reads, with a longest main-thread task of 4.7 s (9.0 s at worst). At today's 4 reads it takes 81.8 s with a longest task of 0.71 s. With a server paced at 5 ms per listing, close to this PR's 24 s, the user waits about 56 s with a 2.5 s longest task. So 138 s -> 24 s is the service time, not what the user sees, and on its own this PR trades a slower Expand all for one that finishes sooner but freezes the window for seconds at a time on very large trees. The cost is in
FileBrowserPanel.tsx, not in this PR's code: two listeners rescan every folder on each tree event. #31463 fixes that (28.9 s -> 4.1 s, longest task 0.22 s; 56 s -> 35 s paced), and this PR should land with it or after it.New tests.
workspaceIgnoreChecks.test.tsuses a fake Git that answers when the test says so, so each state is reached deterministically (the module is new, so these can't fail on main):WorkspaceEntries.test.tsuses real Git, with calls held until four have started:sub/.gitprobes share calls (fails on main)..gitignoreedit between two listings applies to the second (passes on main; a guard against stale labels).vp lint,vp fmt --check,vp run typecheckinapps/serverandapps/web, andWorkspaceEntries.test.ts,workspaceIgnoreChecks.test.tsandWorkspaceFileSystem.test.tspass on Windows (seven of these tests are skipped on Windows). One earlier run failed once in an unrelatedsearchtest, withEBUSYdeleting its temporary folder.Not checked
useDirectoryEntries.browser.test.tsxwas typechecked and linted but not run: the browser test runner failed during dependency optimization on this machine, whose checkout path contains a space. Please rely on CI for it.git status. One workspace's ignore checks stay within 4 of the server's 8 Git slots, as today, but this is not measured.LongPathsEnabled=0.Claude Opus 5.5 in T3 Code (Claude Code harness).