Re: Checking out src with Mercurial

[Johnny Billquist <bqt%update.uu.se@localhost>]

On 2020-06-19 13:45, Matthias Petermann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> some closing words from someone whose arguments in the previous thread 
> were more for Git...
>
> I have tried several times during the week to clone the NetBSD 
> repository using Mercurial. I had observed a high CPU load and an 
> apparently unfinished checkout. I tried again and now the experiences 
> have shifted somewhat positively.
>
> First a tip for everyone who has an unstable internet connection: The 
> effects appear more clearly with Mercurial, because in the current 
> constellation (internet bandwidth, speed of the anonhg server?, ....) it 
> takes a few operations longer than Git and this increases the likelihood 
> of becoming a victim of network fluctuations during an operation. My 
> observation is that sometimes an error message (timeout) occurs and the 
> transaction is rolled back. In this case, everything called up to that 
> point is invalid and you have to start over. Depending on the phase, the 
> process does not seem to notice this when a network fluctuation occurs 
> and instead is stuck in a state in which 100% CPU is used without 
> noticeable progress. That was obviously also the cause of my original 
> experience, in which the cloning of src did not come to an end even 
> after 11 hours on a relatively modern i5 PC.

[...]

Considering that a cvs update on my VAX takes roughly 24 hours, I do not 
look forward to trying hg or git... :-)

Anyone who dares take a bet on how long it will take, assuming things 
don't just timeout and die in the meantime?

(It's a 4000/90 with 128M of ram, so nothing extremely slow, I doubt 
I'll ever try on the 8650 with 60M of ram and RA73 disks...)

  Johnny

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