Performance of bzr update for lightweight checkout

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Sat, 05 Feb 2011, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> > If you sit behind a very fast connection, I'd expect 10 min, not 97.
>> > I got 50 min for a 3Mbps connection.
>> 
>> For some reason, the average rate was below 100 kB/s for me. When
>> watching the progress, the rate sometimes went up to about 2 MB/s,
>> but sometimes it even went down to zero.

> What is the bandwidth of your link?

Large enough, I normally get a throughput of around 100 Mbit/s.

> Anyway, the important question is how long it takes to you to resync
> _after_ the initial checkout (which is known to be slow).

If the time for the initial branch/checkout that I've measured
yesterday is typical, then it is also an issue. More than one hour
with a fast connection is just unacceptable.

And as I said before, for lp:emacs it was only 15 minutes.

Ulrich