[Monotone-devel] performance issues for pull/sync/...

[Mike]

I have some serious performance issues with a moderately-sized
database (125 MB) containing (so far) 54 branches, whenever I
try to pull or sync with our central monotone server :

monotone -d modules.db pull mt.xaraya.com:15000 com.xaraya.modules.*

1. is there really any difference between pull and sync ?

2. isn't sync supposed to check if any branches were changed,
   rather than re-uploading/downloading the whole thing ?

From what I've seen, sync is even slower than pull, even when no
changes occurred on either side...

Note: this is with monotone 0.20 on Windows (on my side) and
on Linux (server side).

Network utilisation is negligeable, CPU and memory occasionally
peak but are generally OK too, but it still takes half an hour
to synchronise the database. Isn't there a faster way to handle
this ?

This is becoming quite a concern for us, because we haven't
even migrated half of our module repositories yet, and we're
nowhere near the size that we'll need for our core and language
repositories...

Mike.