Comment 9 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 21:05 +0000, GuilhemBichot wrote:
> Hello. What do you guys mean by "two machines" in "Streaming means that two machines share the
> load": the server and my client machine?

Yes. The server sends plain texts, and inventory deltas, the client
doesn't buffer, just extracts and compresses.

> Or does Launchpad have multiple servers sending to one client machine (like a torrent)?
> We haven't had such download issues when branching from our internal server which has repo format 1.9 but where we use bzr+ssh

> - does this mean the problem is specific of branching over http?

Its a major component of it, yes.

> I will likely have more questions later regarding the upgrade of MySQL repositories, internal and Launchpad, to format 2a.
> Thanks!

Sure thing.

-Rob