I just pushed a patch to gerrit and spent over a minute twiddling my thumbs waiting for it to complete: [amureini@amureini ovirt-engine (merge)]$ time git push gerrit.us:ovirt-engine.git HEAD:refs/for/master Counting objects: 110, done. Delta compression using up to 4 threads. Compressing objects: 100% (44/44), done. Writing objects: 100% (66/66), 12.84 KiB, done. Total 66 (delta 23), reused 0 (delta 0) remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (23/23) remote: Processing changes: updated: 1, refs: 1, done To gerrit.us:ovirt-engine.git * [new branch] HEAD -> refs/for/master real 1m3.360s user 0m0.512s sys 0m0.359s Note that this patch isn't particularly large. Running git format-patch on it created a 12K file, and the size of the git blob sent to gerrit would probably be even less. Can someone take a look at this please? Thanks, Allon