Performance of bzr update for lightweight checkout

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 22:24:27 +0100
> Cc: aaron at aaronbentley.com, bazaar at lists.canonical.com
> From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm at gentoo.org>
> 
> >>>>> On Fri, 04 Feb 2011, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > It was around 50 min for me, but it's a one-time investment.
> > Thereafter, each "bzr update" takes much less time, usually around
> > 30 sec (assuming you sync at least once a day). So it's worth your
> > while.
> 
> Strangely enough, when using the mirror at lp:emacs, it is only 15 min
> for me, as compared to the 97 min for savannah.
> 
> Can this be due to different bzr versions? Or is network bandwidth or
> hardware at savannah too slow for the load they must handle?

If you sit behind a very fast connection, I'd expect 10 min, not 97.
I got 50 min for a 3Mbps connection.

What URL did you use in the "bzr branch" command?