One thing for Linux is that it happily caches large numbers of inodes, as long as there's enough memory for it. MacOS has a (configurable) maximum, and the defa

One thing for Linux is that it happily caches large numbers of inodes, as long as there's enough memory for it. MacOS has a (configurable) maximum, and the default value is low enough that it makes things really bad for large repositories. It used to be a few thousands, it's now around 263K, apparently. Check it out on your machines: sysctl kern.maxvnodes