Comment 7 for bug 456077

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Robert Collins wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 07:15 +0000, Ian Clatworthy wrote:
>> Hi Jorgen,
>>
>> Thanks for the bug report. I'm sorry it took so long. Looking at
>> https://code.launchpad.net/~mysql/mysql-server/mysql-5.1, it looks like
>> that branch is still in our 1.x format. I suspect the primary reason it
>> took so long was because it was actually converting content to the new
>> format on the fly, rather than just transferring it. I'll let one of the
>> more network-savvy developers confirm that.
>>
>> You may want to check with the MySql team as to when they plan to
>> upgrade their branches to our new format before going much further. If
>> it's a while away, you may need to change the format you're using
>> locally instead of using the default 2.x one.
>
> Conversion will have added to the overhead yes; however we did fix the
> huge-roundtrip-count bug on such conversions for 2.0.0, so it should
> have been tolerable. Likely the inventory cache was a large contributing
> factor to the memory utilisation though.
>
> -Rob
>

It took about 48 hours to convert the mysql repo I have to 2a. So if he
was doing cross-format conversions on the fly, that would be an
approximate ballpark of how long it would take to get a local copy.

John
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