On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 06:37:43PM +0000, Grant Husbands wrote: > Hi, > > I'm seeing a marked performance difference between using a mapped drive > (remotely mounted via samba) and using ssh (to the same machine) for my > source darcs repositories. For example, a pull, when there are 25 > patches to pull, takes about three seconds to start asking questions, > through the mapped drive, or 57 seconds via SSH. Even when there are no > patches to pull or push, the operation takes 1 second through the mapped > drive and 28 seconds via SSH. > > Does anyone else see similar performance figures or is this likely just > a peculiarity of the machine to which I'm connecting? Is there any easy > way to speed up SSH access?
SSH connection setup can very time-consuming, and Darcs has a tendency to connect multiple times. You can speed it up hugely by reusing SSH connections, using the multiplexing feature that was added about a year ago. It's not very well documented unfortunately. See ControlMaster in ssh_config(5), and random stuff on the Web... -- Jamie Webb _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.abridgegame.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
