slow clone form a windows share

[marco gaddoni]

On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 19:02, Adrian Buehlmann <adrian at cadifra.com> wrote:

> On 2012-04-05 14:04, marco gaddoni wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 09:28, Adrian Buehlmann <adrian at cadifra.com
> > <mailto:adrian at cadifra.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 2012-04-05 08:36, marco gaddoni wrote:
> >     > Hello,
> >
> >     Googling for "C:\Windows\CSC\v2.0.6" hints that it might be related
> to
> >     Windows' offline files feature.
> >
> >     Check your offline files setting and try disabling it:
> >
> >
> http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/48829-offline-files-enable-disable-use.html
> >
> >
> > thank you, Adrian,
> > offline folders was enabled and following
> > that page i was able to disable it;
> >
> > unfortunately the speed did not improve.
> > this repository contain 2 commit,
> > boost 1.48 and 1.49.
> > its size is
> >
> > server:/share/hg/boost/.hg # du -s *
> > 4       00changelog.i
> > 8       cache
> > 4       hgrc
> > 4       requires
> > 204756  store
> > 0       undo.bookmarks
> > 4       undo.branch
> > 4       undo.desc
> > 0       undo.dirstate
> >
> > server:/share/hg/boost/.hg # find store/ | wc -l
> > 41070
> >
> > server:/share/hg/boost/.hg # find . -type f | xargs du -s | sort -r -n
> > 2056    ./fncache
> > 1900    ./data/libs/polygon/doc/_g_t_l__boostcon__draft03.pdf.d
> > 1184    ./00manifest.d
> > 732     ./data/libs/msm/doc/_p_d_f/msm.pdf.d
> > 704     ./data/libs/mpl/doc/refmanual.pdf.d
> > 440     ./data/libs/pool/doc/pool.pdf.d
> > 412
> ./data/libs/icl/doc/boostcon09/intro__to__itl__3__0__0__bc09.pdf.d
> > 364     ./data/libs/icl/doc/boostcon09/intro__to__itl__3__1__0.pdf.d
> > 364     ./data/libs/icl/doc/boostcon09/intro__to__itl.pdf.d
> > 328
> > ./data/libs/math/dot__net__example/_setupdistex/_release/_setupdistex.ms
> > <http://setupdistex.ms>
> > i.d
> > 312     ./data/status/expected__results.xml.d
> > 244     ./data/more/_boost_sponsorship_agreement.pdf.d
> > 244     ./data/libs/math/test/ibeta__inva__data.ipp.d
> > 236     ./data/libs/math/test/binomial__quantile.ipp.d
> > 224     ./data/libs/statechart/doc/reference.pdf.d
> > 224     ./data/libs/python/build/python__v1.zip.d
> > 216     ./data/libs/asio/doc/reference.qbk.d
> > 208     ./data/libs/geometry/example/data/roads.wkt.d
> > 208     ./00changelog.d
> >
> > is it normal to take more than 10 minutes to clone ?
>
> How long does it take to (deep-)copy the repo root directory with all
> the contents from the network share to your destination? (that is,
> without using mercurial).
>

will chek this one too, next week ..



>
> Copying lots of files from a Windows share to a local computer usually
> takes time as well. I wouldn't be that suprised about 10 minutes for a
> plain directory copy over the network if the number of files is large
> enough.
>

maybe. is it the number of file that slow down
the copy? could  a clone via http os ssh speed
up the operation ?


> You most likely can't expect mercurial being faster than a file per file
> copy, if it has to access the files an a network share and copy them to
> your local computer.
>
> ok


> In response to Matt's answer: remember that a local 'hg clone' will
> normally be fast because of hardlinking (provided the filesystem
> supports it, which NTFS does, and both source and target location are on
> the same volume), which isn't possible if you clone from UNC path to
> local. So you would probably have to use 'hg clone --pull' to compare
> speeds when doing the local clone for comparison.
>
> yes


> > i have tried to clone via web (that is, i run hg serve on
> > the server and cloned on my pc with
> > hg clone http://server:8000/);
> > it died in out of memory ...
> >
> > is this expected ?
>
> See Matt's answer. I'll refrain from responding to this part.
>
>


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