Mercurial 1.1 released! - slow http access

[Benoit Boissinot]

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 7:27 PM, Satish Balay <balay at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> I've installed mercurial-1.1 on a centos 4.7 box that provides access
> to repos via both http & ssh.
>
> [I've grabbed mercurial srpm from fedora-koji and rebuilt on this machine]
>
> I'm noticing the following:
> - ssh access is fine.
> - However http access is slow.
>
> Each http access takes 5 sec or so. I see the python process spawned
> by apache taking arround that much time - with arround 100% cpu usage.
>
>  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>  2179 apache    25   0 10320 7284 2172 R 99.1  0.7   0:04.20 python
>
> The http access could be via the web browser - or via 'hg pull' with a
> http:// URL.
>
> Any idea why this happens? This issue goes away if I revert to
> mercurial-1.0.2

Could you please try to profile it (for example by running hg serve --lsprof) ?

Thanks,

Benoit