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From: Joshua Jensen <jjensen@workspacewhiz.com>
To: "git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git-upload-pack bandwidth cap over SSH?
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 13:30:30 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C9CFC56.3030501@workspacewhiz.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C9CB9E9.8010901@workspacewhiz.com>

  ----- Original Message -----
From: Joshua Jensen
Date: 9/24/2010 8:47 AM
>  Our Git repository central server is running on some kind of 
> enterprise VM software.  I can push repository changes through the 
> Gitolite-monitored SSH tunnel at 10+ megabytes per second.
>
> A 'git pull' operation (even a fresh clone of the packed repository) 
> always caps at 1.55 MiB/s, according to the "Receiving objects" line 
> in the status text.
>
> Thinking it might be a hardware issue (half duplex?), I installed 
> VirtualBox on my Windows 7 64-bit machine and then made an Ubuntu 
> Gitolite install.  Running on my local hardware, the push is roughly 
> 12 megabytes per second.  The 'git pull' downstream again caps at 1.55 
> MiB/s.
>
> Are there any configuration settings within Git that may limit the 
> git-upload-pack operation's speed?
>
> I realize this could be a MinGW issue via the msysGit client.
>
> Update: I just copied a large file via 'scp', and the downstream still 
> capped at 1.55-ish megabytes per second.  So it isn't Git.
Replying to my own message... I take that back.  I'm not sure what I was 
seeing, but I can consistently run scp and copy files at 6+ megabytes 
per second.

With that in mind, I'm back to looking at Git's pull performance over 
SSH.  It never exceeds 1.55 MiB/s.

Josh

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-09-24 19:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-24 14:47 git-upload-pack bandwidth cap over SSH? Joshua Jensen
2010-09-24 16:16 ` Matthieu Moy
2010-09-24 19:13 ` Tay Ray Chuan
2010-09-24 19:30 ` Joshua Jensen [this message]
2010-09-24 19:42   ` Joshua Jensen

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