From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: local clone much slower than remote clone Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 22:45:54 -0400 Message-ID: <433DF862.4020500@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Oct 01 04:46:40 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ELXNx-00082j-Fi for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 01 Oct 2005 04:46:01 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750716AbVJACp5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Sep 2005 22:45:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750718AbVJACp5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Sep 2005 22:45:57 -0400 Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:3978 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750716AbVJACp5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Sep 2005 22:45:57 -0400 Received: from cpe-069-134-188-146.nc.res.rr.com ([69.134.188.146] helo=[10.10.10.88]) by mail.dvmed.net with esmtpsa (Exim 4.52 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1ELXNs-0003rK-CX for git@vger.kernel.org; Sat, 01 Oct 2005 02:45:56 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050720) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Git Mailing List X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Case 1: remote clone time git clone rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git scsi-sas-2.6 ... real 3m36.432s user 0m0.584s sys 0m0.656s Case 2: local clone time git clone /spare/repo/linux-2.6 scsi-sas-2.6 ... Packing 99084 objects Unpacking 99084 objects ... real 4m31.876s user 4m43.618s sys 0m40.047s Downloading an entire kernel tree over cable modem is almost a minute faster than a local clone! IMHO the local clone should just hardlink the packs and objects, and be done with it. Jeff