[darcs-devel] [issue987] fetching patches is way too slow

[Eric Kow]

New submission from Eric Kow <eric.kow at gmail.com>:

We still have a lot of anecdotal evidence that darcs fetching patches is slow,
slow, painfully slow.  For example, on my machine with darcs 2.0.2+
(--with-curl-pipelining)

darcs get http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe/trunk

I'm creating this bug mostly as a placeholder.

Things we need
 * more systematic/reproducible measurements (maybe we need something like a
patch-per-second figure)
 * a clearer idea what are the conditions that lead to slowneness (we have
reports that .haskell.org is inherently slow, why exactly? and what about non
haskell.org advice).  What kind of advice can we give to users to avoid slowness?

I'm not very clear on how to do this properly.  Thoughts, Dmitry?

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messages: 5381
nosy: beschmi, dagit, dmitry.kurochkin, gwern, kowey, tommy
priority: urgent
status: unread
title: fetching patches is way too slow
topic: Performance

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