Re: [Monotone-devel] slow update/status on NFS

[Chad Walstrom]

Derek Scherger <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hrm, or is it a *workspace* that's on that filer? That also sounds
> like something that would be better on a local disk but I can imagine
> various corporate policies that would require it be on the filer.

Probably.  Obviously, not the best choice for performance reasons, but
if policy works against you, what action can you take but improve your
tools? ;-) I recall having a workspace shared over nfs so that we could
access the directories from other machines on the network.  I always
SSH'ed my build commands to the host machine for those same performance
reasons (only really works if it's a server/workstation and not a
black-box, network appliance).  Compiling to an NFS share just isn't
feasible unless it is on a jumbo-frame GigE network.  Even then, not
ideal.

I'm all for cacheing the result of the fstat/stat calls for the life of
the command, ignored or tossed in those cases where you want to be extra
careful.

Chad