Re: git clone failing over slow links?

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On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Nicolas Pitre<nico@cam.org> wrote:
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> Do you clearly have a set of people for whom the clone works and another
> set with issues?

Yes. Several us are able to reliably clone every time. A few users are
able to clone once or twice (maybe 1 out of every 10 times), but
otherwise, it fails when the server drops the connection.

From what they said, it looked like read_in_full() (in wrapper.c)
isn't getting a full buffer. In two cases, 4077 or 4082 out of 4097
bytes. xread is returning 0 as you'd expect for an EOF.

> 147 KiB/s is not particularly slow either.  What is fast enough for the
> clone to usually succeed?

Mine is 500 KB/sec where it always succeeds. I can try using dummynet
to simulate a slow link though.

> Also, since this is through an ssh connection, do you have anything in
> your syslog from sshd (usually in /var/log/secure) about anything
> unusual for the connection to go down?

I'm trying to get that from the server admin now.