[darcs-users] "darcs is slooow."

[Trent W. Buck]

trentbuck at gmail.com (Trent W. Buck) writes:

> On a server where /tmp is ext3, 2.4GHz Celeron, 1GB of free memory (2GB
> total), running Fedora Core 3:
>
>   $ ssh soy 'darcs --version && time ~/.bin/with-temp-dir darcs get http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe/trunk'
>   2.0.2 (release)
>   with-temp-dir: entering directory `/tmp/with-temp-dir.e29546'
>   Writing inventory 2/2
>
>   darcs: unable to read patch:
>   Fri Aug 29 06:21:09 EST 2008  zooko at zooko.com
>     * docs: how_to_make_a_tahoe_release.txt
>     Just some cryptic notes to self, but if I get hit by a truck then someone else might be able to decode them.
>   user error (Failed to download URL http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe/trunk/_darcs/patches/20080828202109-92b7f-a337f04b737a79a9a67488f5454c06b7595eff71.gz: couldn't connect to server)
>   with-temp-dir: leaving directory `/tmp/with-temp-dir.e29546'
>
>   real	29m10.690s
>   user	1m31.534s
>   sys	0m11.443s
>   $

Second attempt worked:

  $ ssh -t soy 'darcs --version && time ~/.bin/with-temp-dir darcs get http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe/trunk'
  2.0.2 (release)
  with-temp-dir: entering directory `/tmp/with-temp-dir.WD9529'
  Finished getting.
  with-temp-dir: leaving directory `/tmp/with-temp-dir.WD9529'

  real	31m2.131s
  user	2m7.565s
  sys	0m18.657s
  Connection to soy closed.
  $