Re: [Monotone-devel] How long is a while? Or pull source more than 2 hours? [was: Re: no more bitkeeper for linux?]

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 11:18:14PM +0200, Henry Nestler wrote:
> Last days I have also detect, that monotone are very slow with big 
> database. I started a pull of Monotone source, and after 30 Minites it 
> does no network traffic and eats all CPU time. In next follow 60 Minutes 
> I wand to write a bug report to you. I do make screen shoots and all. 
> But before I post this all, the download was ready after total more than 
> 2 hours to download your source of 37MB. So I do not wrote to list.

Yes, that is normal.

> monotone: verifying new revisions (this may take a while)
> monotone: [bytes in: 23910613] [bytes out: 554635] [certs in: 5924] 
> [revs in: 2175]

This is why it warns you that it might take a while :-).

The cause is the increased safety checking added in 0.17; it is not
fully optimized yet.  We're working on it; current mainline is better
than 0.17 (though I haven't measured how much recently).

-- Nathaniel

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