GUI performance with large repos (100k changesets)

[Aurélien Campéas]

On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 11:35:10AM +0200, Aurélien Campéas wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 10:09:26AM -0400, Greg Ward wrote:
> > I have noticed that both "hg view" and "hgview" are unusable with a
> > deep history.  In particular, running hgview on my trial conversion
> > from CVS (102,000 revisions, 26,000 files, 800 MB) took 2.5 hours and
> > used 600 MB of RAM trying to render the initial GUI before I killed
> > it.  (The progress bar looked like it was about 60% of the way through
> > doing whatever it does at startup.)  (I haven't tried "hg view" on
> > that repository because it runs out of steam on a much smaller
> > history: e.g. my 15,000-revision test repo made it pretty much
> > unusable.)
> > 
> > Questions:

How long does it take to execute :

hg glog

on such a repository ?