Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Scalability question

[Timothy Brownawell]

On 8/4/06, Bruce Stephens <address@hidden> wrote:
> "Jonathan S. Shapiro" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> [...]
>
> > Also, the need to sync a 400 kbyte object in order to begin a
> > checkout is very disconcerting to users -- especially when you are
> > doing it over a slow link at (e.g.) a hotel or (e.g.) a PPP link
> > [Yes, a lot of people really still use dial-up).
>
> That particular concern doesn't affect monotone, since all checkouts
> are with a local database.

Once or twice, I've used monotone on part of my filesystem that was an
sshfs mount (both db and workspace). Even on a 10mbit connection, it
was painfully slow.

Tim