Question

I have recently setup a Mercurial clone with TortoiseHg on our network – it seems to take forever to add files, do commits etc.. It usually hangs for 3-5 minutes at a time & for seem reason it really doesn’t like any kind of right-clicking in TortoiseHg.

I am fairly new to Mercurial so there could be some settings to speed this all up but I am not sure of how to best approach this, my pc specs are below:
Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q8300 @ 2.50Ghz
4GB RAM (3GB Usable)

The actual clone is pretty big – in total just around 200MB, I’m not sure if this large size is causing the slowdown, or the fact that the clone itself isn’t on my machine but on our local network.

Any ideas of how best to optimise everything?

Answer 1

First, I would try to do the same mercurial operations from the command line, to rule out a slow GUI.

We have the same setup here at my work. The “main” repos is on a mapped network drive. Accessing this is slow, so I’ve made a local clone for fast access and only synchronizing when necessary.

Now when I think about it, why don’t you have a clone on your local machine? Isn’t that the entire point of dvcs?