Comment 2 for bug 498481

I'm trying now again on my Mandriva Cooker system (though a similar problem happened also on a Debian VirtualBox VM). I'm running it overnight under "time". It now seems that it's downloading at 1 kB/s or 2 kB/s or so.

I've written a blog post about my frustrations with bzr's performance here:

http://community.livejournal.com/shlomif_tech/41922.html

I admit it's a bit flamatory and other people said that it works better for them on more underpowered machines and on Windows. Nevertheless, mercurial, git and even subversion are very fast here. Someone who is a bzr fan said "I'm doing it wrong." but I'm out of ideas, because bzr on a brand new installation of Debian Testing on a new partition is still very slow.

Regards,

-- Shlomi Fish