Nathan Gray wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 04:12:50PM -0800, Conal Elliott wrote: > > Is darcs known to be difficult over a high-latency internet > > connection? I have satellite-based internet and so a considerable > > ping (1-2 seconds typically). Pushes & pulls are terribly slow > (often > > several minutes). I wonder if there are helpful coping strategies > (other than leaving darcs). > > > > I am running darcs 2.1.0 (release) locally. One server I use has > > 2.1.0 installed, while another (code.haskell.org) has 2.0.2. > > > > To get a sense of how many times I'm making new connections, I > renamed > > by ~/.ssh. When I try a push, I get prompted for my password over & > > over & over. > > I noticed that the other day, too. I think the idea with multiple ssh > connections was to make pushes and pulls faster, but on flaky networks, > using a single connection is likely faster. > > I would not mind having an option to specify that I only want to use > one ssh connection.
One SSH connection wouldn't help in the case of a satellite connection (I used one for a time). It would have the exact same issue. For Satellite in particular you get the best throughput when the system can pre-fetch a single large file. So probably the best bet for a situation like Conal's would be better support for large packs over individually requesting patches/pristine. I don't think you could ever get darcs push much faster, but certainly fewer, larger files to download are more useful in a satellite environment. -- --Max Battcher-- http://worldmaker.net _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
