Re: [Monotone-devel] Server broken

[Jack Lloyd]

On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 01:20:38PM -0400, Ethan Blanton wrote:
> It should probably be clarified that John's experience includes
> serving monotone, specifically.  Pidgin and its related projects have
> had monotone on a number of virtual servers from varying providers
> over the years, and our experiences have been Really Bad.  Monotone is
> extremely demanding of I/O in a way which virtual hosts seem to have a
> lot of trouble with.

Ah, yes -- pidgin is probably a much more demanding user of monotone
than I am. I haven't had any problems running a monotone server with a
~300 Mb database on my vm, but it sees maybe a 100 connections a day,
so probably not really a similiar experience. -Jack