bzr speed and frequent crashes from Sri Lanka (.lk)

[chamindra]

We have been using bzr for the sahana project (http://www.sahana.lk) and have to report that we are experiencing frequent crashes on bzr pull / merge. The speed being reported on the pull is also much less than my throughput to the internet. I do not experience this issue when using the launchpad website, other websites or when using ssh on other sites.

Below is an example where it has freezed on a bzr pull

Using saved parent location: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~sahanapy-haiti/sahana/haiti-or/
[/ ] 976kB @ 1kB/s | Pull phase:Copying inventory texts

My throughput is 52kB/s typically compared to the 1-10kBs I am getting from the bzr launchpad server.

PING bazaar.launchpad.net (91.189.90.11): give icmp_seq=2 ttl=47 time=214 ms

This also has a tendency to unrecoverable corrupt my bzr instance. However asking other members of our global community they do not seems to have issues with bzr, but other members in the project from Sri Lanka have complained about similar issues.

[Martin Pool (mbp)]

Hi Chamindra,

That's great to see free software being used for such a cause and I want to make sure bzr is helping you well.

I'm going to convert this into a support question at least until we determine that there is a specific bug here.

[Martin Pool (mbp)]

Let's work out what's going wrong here.