Re: [Arx-users] Why is arx browse so slow?

[Walter Landry]

Kevin Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
> Walter Landry wrote:
> > Kevin Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
> >>address@hidden arx $ time arx browse
> >>This branch does not exist in this archive
> >>        address@hidden/
> >>
> >>real    6m18.027s
> >>user    0m0.018s
> >>sys     0m0.007s
> >>address@hidden arx $
> > 
> > 
> > This looks like a bug.  Can you try again with 2.2.2?
> 
> I mis-spoke. It was with 2.2.2. Does it not happen for you?

No.  What does "arx archives" give you?  Also, it looks like you've
set your default archive to address@hidden  What does "arx
param default-archive" give you?

> >>Case 2 (which is merely annoying and puzzling):
> >>
> >>---
> >>address@hidden arx $ time arx browse address@hidden/arx.2
> >>    2
> >>
> >>real    0m11.756s
> >>user    0m0.068s
> >>sys     0m0.016s
> >>address@hidden arx $
> > 
> > 
> > At present, ArX does not multiplex any network operations.  That is on
> > the TODO list, although I think I will do it after ArX gets switched
> > to a more portable networking library.
> 
> Postponing makes sense. when it lists something like 0 .. 112 is it
> having to make 112 network calls? If so, then each network call is
> taking something like 1/30th of a second (30 ms) which I guess sounds
> reasonable.
> 
> I wonder if it really needs to descend to that level. Maybe it could
> stop one level above that, unless --detail was specified. Or, if you
> really feel it can be optimized away almost entirely, at some point,
> without too much pain, it's probably not worth doing anything with it yet.

It should not be recursing into each revision directory (,1 ,2 ,3
etc.), so it should just get a complete directory listing and be done.
However, I have noticed, even for local archives, that it takes too
long.  I need to look into it.

Cheers,
Walter