On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 09:42:04PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > > > > I'm playing with monotone right now. Superficially it looks like it > > has tons of gee-whiz neato stuff... however, it's *agonizingly* slow. > > I mean glacial. A heavily sedated sloth with no legs is probably > > faster. > > Yes. The silly thing is, at least in my local tests it doesn't actually > seem to be _doing_ anything while it's slow (there are no system calls > except for a few memory allocations and de-allocations). It seems to have > some exponential function on the number of pathnames involved etc. > > I'm hoping they can fix it, though. The basic notions do not sound wrong.
That is indeed correct wrt pathnames. The current head of monotone is a lot better in this regard (the order of 2-3 minutes for "monotone import" on a 2.6 linux untar). The basic problem is that in the last release (0.17), a huge amount of sanity checking code was added to ensure that inconsistent or generally bad revisions can never be written/received/transmitted. The focus is now on speeding that up - there's a _lot_ of low hanging fruit for us to look at. Matt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
