Re: "hg clone https://anonhg.netbsd.org/src/" still aborts, but...

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 04:48:20PM -0500, J. Lewis Muir wrote:
> On 06/13, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> > The time to do the checkout is clearly limited by the NFS server
> > (especially since it's on an entirely separate physical machine with a
> > 1GB ethernet link), but that's in theory at least exactly the same
> > amount of I/O and data that Git has to move to do the same checkout.  HG
> > is just way slower, at least when doing the primary bundle unpacking
> > during the clone operation and again during the initial "hg checkout".
> 
> Didn't Roy Marples show that his Mercurial clone was only 12 seconds
> slower than your Git clone?
> 
>   https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-repository/2020/06/12/msg000723.html
> 
> Or are you saying that the problem is that you're cloning to an
> NFS-mounted file system, and *that* is way slower with Mercurial
> compared to Git?  If so, that seems like a separate issue that could
> benefit from a new thread with a new subject.  It could even be a
> problem with NFS at that point.

It wouldn't surprise me that NFS screws things up. For various reasons,
hg uses more files for the repo than git and file operations are
expensive with NFS.

Joerg