Re: Surely 'bzr branch' shouldn't be this slow?

[Lennart Borgman]

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Yavor Doganov <address@hidden> wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> I don't think the time it takes to make the original branch (or a
>> branch outside the shared repo) is CPU-bound.
>
> It certainly is!  I've been fighting for 3 days now to branch on one
> of my most powerful machines at home (AMD Duron 1.3 GHz, 500 MB RAM)
> without success, and I gave up today.  Both sftp/http methods get
> stuck around 275/300 MB, and the machine is experiencing sky high
> loads; I can't even login.  I'm tired of killing bzr and restarting
> the process; it always fails.
>
> At work, on a Pentium IV 2 GHz/1G RAM it took me about an hour and a
> half with a slower connection.
>
> I guess if I compress the shared repo and scp it to my home machine,
> it would work, right?


Just a comment: I have not even tried yet to use bzr. According to
what I am reading it looks impossible at the moment.

Am I right or?