Comment 6 for bug 456077

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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote : Re: [Bug 456077] Re: bzr branch: unacceptable slow

On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 08:01 +0000, Jorgen Austvik wrote:
> I can confirm that 'bzr lp-login' really helps utilizing my network. Now
> it is consistently around 550KB/sec download speed - earlier it was a
> 550KB/s spike every ~10 seconds, and nothing in between.
>
> It also reduced memory usage 10X, from 4GB to 400MB, and I was actually
> able to branch mysql-5.0 in 16m28.121s.
>
> Memory leak when downloading with HTTP?

Conversions take a bunch of memory, and there are file system and index
caches, all of which add up. Streaming means that two machines share the
load, and there are better lifetime management as well.

-Rob