Re: HTTP access to Emacs source code

[Stefan Monnier]

>> It depends when you try.  I tried just now and it took only 20 sec to
>> get to the site page and only 10 sec to get to subdirectory `lisp'.
>> That is not what I was seeing earlier today.
> I can confirm this.  I sometimes get response that's slow but
> not ridiculously slow (right now, 2 to 10 seconds), and
> sometimes ridiculously slow (earlier today, a couple of minutes).
> This is to visit <http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/emacs/trunk/files>.

Loggerhead on a large repository such as Emacs's is a very demanding
process, so you will see such problems inevitably, unless your machine
has lots and lots of RAM and I don't think bzr.savannah.gnu.org is such
a monster server.


        Stefan