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

[Yavor Doganov]

Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > 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.

It's pretty decent (0.5-1.5) in the first 1 hr or so, when the bzr
progress indicator is moving.  After it becomes (or at least appears
to be) stuck, the load goes nuts, increasing from 1.5 to 15 for a few
minutes, staying high for a while, falling back again, then up, etc.

> But it probably thrashes wildly because Bzr ends up using more than
> 500MB.

Indeed, it eats the memory + 500 MB swap, but there's still 500 MB
swap availaible, so I can't explain myself this behavior.

> > 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.

Yes, it worked nicely, although the download rate at the receiving end
was very low.  At least I finally have the sources, and can do `bzr
pull', etc.  Thanks.