Hello,

On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 5:30 PM, David Given <[email protected]> wrote:
> Michai Ramakers wrote:
> [...]
>> ...resulting in about 70 kB/s traffic with very rare (a minute or more
>> in between - didn't time exactly) single bursts. According to top(1),
>> neither server- nor client-fossils seem to be doing anything
>> CPU-intensive at that time.
> [...]
>> Both 'local to local' clones were slow (70 kB/s), while both 'remote
>> to local' clones were fast (around 7 MB/s).
>
> My instant gut reaction here is to say 'IPv6'. If your DNS setup is
> wrong on the 'local' machine, then whenever it tries to look up
> localhost it could well be spending ages trying to query it up the DNS
> hierarchy. This would explain the burst traffic: every HTTP connection
> would involve a very long pause for the lookup, and then normal traffic
> thereafter.
>
> I don't know if this is actually the case or not, but don't ask me how
> to fix it --- I don't use IPv6 on any machines I admin. But these links
> might be relevant:
>
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-networking-3/ipv6-stopping-dns-lookup-on-localhost-207066/
>
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86449

Thank you for the suggestion, however:

$ /tmp/fossil clone http://[email protected]:8080/ copy.fossil

(same result - slow)

Michai
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