[darcs-users] Re: performance help please?

[Mark Stosberg]

On 2005-01-08, Zooko O'Whielacronx <zooko at zooko.com> wrote:
> It takes several minutes to pull a single patch from my Linux 
> (Athlon64) workstation to my Mac (G4) laptop over a wireless link.  I'm 
> guessing that this time is proportional to the number of patches in the 
> repo -- 693, and that darcs is fetching each patch name and checking.
>
> Question 1: surely it isn't doing 693 round-trips, is it?  I do hope it 
> is parallelizing and sending 693 successive requests and then waiting 
> for 693 replies to come back over the ssh channel.

Perhaps you could use 'strace darcs ...' to see what system calls darcs
is making. I'm not an strace expert, but I have found it useful to
help see what a binary is doing.

    Mark

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