Huge data transfers/bad performance on bzr pull??

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Andrew Bennetts wrote:
> Frits Jalvingh wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> For some reason pulling changes from a smart server takes a very long time. My 
>> smart server is on a slow netwerk link, and I notice that for trivial changes 
>> it downloads huge amounts of data.
>>
>> I just pulled a single commit containing 4 small changes to again 4 small 
>> files; it downloaded 42MB to do that.....
>>
>> Although it works it is mildly irritating... Is there anything I can do to fix 
>> this?
> 
> That's pretty bad.  It's certainly not normal behaviour.
> 
> Which versions of bzr on the client and the server?  Are the formats of the
> remote and local branches and repositories the same (check bzr info -v)?  Also,
> try adding -Dhpss to the command line and look in the ~/.bzr.log to see which
> smart-server commands are taking all the time (and bandwidth).
> 
> -Andrew.
>  
> 
> 

My guess is that this could be:
 4460 Canonical.com Patch Queue Manager	2009-06-18 [merge]
      (jam) Get rid of InterPackRepository in favor of PackStreamSource.

Which isn't in 1.16.1, but will be in 1.17.

John
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