From: Darrin Thompson <darrint@progeny.com>
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 14:03:57 GMT
Subject: Re: Dump http servers still slow?
Message-ID: <1122905037.4042.1.camel@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <7v1x5ftqn5.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Sat, 2005-07-30 at 23:51 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 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