Re: Surely 'bzr branch' shouldn't be this slow?

[Stefan Monnier]

> It certainly is!  I've been fighting for 3 days now to branch on one
> of my most powerful machines at home (AMD Duron 1.3 GHz, 500 MB RAM)
> without success, and I gave up today.  Both sftp/http methods get
> stuck around 275/300 MB, and the machine is experiencing sky high
> loads; I can't even login.

Hard to believe the load goes high.  But it probably thrashes wildly
because Bzr ends up using more than 500MB.  That would also explain the
fact you can't login, which shouldn't be a problem with a high load.

> I guess if I compress the shared repo and scp it to my home machine,
> it would work, right?

Yes it would work just fine and be much faster.  But since it's
compressed already, you can skip the first step.


        Stefan