Re: [Gnu-arch-users] really, really slow commit / mirror with webdav

[Andrew Suffield]

On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 04:31:09PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> Andrew Suffield wrote:
> 
> | On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 11:58:54PM -0800, Dustin Sallings wrote:
> | >   Any reason arch should take 3 hours to do what curl does in 28 
> | >   seconds?
> | 
> | Usually because tla doesn't pipeline at all, so latency kills
> | it. Check the latency to that server.
> 
> I would have thought that in transferring a single 238MB file over TCP,
> the latency would have to be at least on the order of minutes to have
> that kind of effect.

Anything over a second and you probably need to boost the tcp window
size anyway. But that's an unrelated problem; tla has a great many
wait-for-response states, which multiplies latency quite badly.

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