Re: [Monotone-devel] Unix Attributes and Symlinks

[Daniel Dickinson]

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On Sat, 8 Jul 2006 23:08:03 -0700
Nathaniel Smith <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 01:54:27PM -0400, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
> > On Thu, 6 Jul 2006 07:59:39 -0700
> > I'll have to try that, but it's the 'mtn get attr x' and 'mtn set
> > attr x y' that are noticeably slow even on single files (at least a
> > second per file), not the commit itself.
> 
> Okay, yeah, inodeprints won't help with that.  But it's still a bit
> odd; 'attr get' and 'attr set' are both ~0.1s for me here, on
> monotone's tree, which is ~1700 files and ~13 MB (though only the
> former should matter for attr get/set, since it doesn't have to touch
> any file content).  That's still maybe longer than you'd like, of
> course.

I've just started an update of a tree on a Duron @ 850 and it operates
at the kind of speeds you suggest.  So clearly whatever is involved is
expensive in terms of cpu time. 

- -- 
And that's my crabbing done for the day.  Got it out of the way early, 
now I have the rest of the afternoon to sniff fragrant tea-roses or 
strangle cute bunnies or something.   -- Michael Devore

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