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Re: Dump http servers still slow?

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DTDarrin Thompson <darrint@progeny.com>
Date
Aug 1, 2005, 14:03 UTC
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On Sat, 2005-07-30 at 23:51 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Darrin Thompson <darrint@progeny.com> writes:
> 
> > 1. Pack files should reduce the number of http round trips.
> > 2. What I'm seeing when I check out mainline git is the acquisition of a
> > single large pack, then 600+ more recent objects. Better than before,
> > but still hundreds of round trips.
> 
> I've packed the git.git repository, by the way.  It has 43
> unpacked objects totalling 224 kilobytes, so cloning over dumb
> http should go a lot faster until we accumulate more unpacked
> objects.

I did a pull from the office and the times were 27 sec for http and 17 sec for rsync. So the moral of the story should be that frequent repacks are sufficient for decent http performance.

-- Darrin

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  1. Darrin ThompsonJul 28, 2005
  2. Junio C HamanoJul 29, 2005
  3. Darrin ThompsonJul 29, 2005
  4. Ryan AndersonJul 29, 2005
  5. Darrin ThompsonJul 29, 2005
  6. Radoslaw AstralStorm SzkodzinskiJul 29, 2005
  7. Darrin ThompsonJul 29, 2005
  8. Junio C HamanoJul 30, 2005
  9. Junio C HamanoJul 31, 2005
  10. Darrin ThompsonAug 1, 2005

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