From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Strategy to deal with slow cloners
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2021 20:08:16 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210421200816.GA13772@dcvr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210419180803.GA10171@dcvr>
Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> wrote:
> Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > Hello:
> >
> > I try to keep repositories routinely repacked and optimized for clones, in
> > hopes that most operations needing lots of objects would be sending packs
> > straight from disk. However, every now and again a client from a slow
> > connection requests a large clone and then takes half a day downloading it,
> > resulting in gigabytes of RAM being occupied by a temporary pack.
>
> Yeah, I'm familiar with the problem.
Also, AFAIK nginx has "proxy_buffering on" by default. However,
I seem to recall that prevents clients from seeing a single byte
until the pack is completely generated. It's been many years
since I've used nginx myself, so my knowledge about it could be
out-of-date.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-21 20:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-19 12:46 Strategy to deal with slow cloners Konstantin Ryabitsev
2021-04-19 18:08 ` Eric Wong
2021-04-21 20:08 ` Eric Wong [this message]
2021-04-20 14:52 ` Thomas Braun
2021-04-22 9:16 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-04-23 10:02 ` Jeff King
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