[p4] Perforce tunnel performance

[Stephen Vance]

I've used Perforce over SSH on public wireless and even over 
international 56K dial-up. I wouldn't want to do the 40MB sync over the 
latter, but I've done it over the former with no unexpected pain. Yeah, 
you'll wait a little longer than if you were on your LAN, but it's a 
good time to go to dinner. :-)

Steve

R. Tyler Ballance wrote:
> I was reading through the ten minute pitch (http://www.perforce.com/ 
> pitch/page03.html specifically) killing time waiting for a Windows  
> machine to finish downloading p4report.exe, and I was struck by the  
> sentence regarding the p4 protocol: "Designed to be efficient over  
> long-latency networks such as WANs and the Internet, Perforce's  
> protocol handles worldwide software development companies with ease."
>
> This got me wondering, I very often develop while traveling, or on  
> somebody else's wireless network, usually these networks have a  
> _horrednous_ lag, combined with my p4 server's location, my  
> experience syncing and submitting large changelists are  
> always...interesitng, which leads me to the question:
>
> I tunnel my communications to the perforce server over SSH, does this  
> negate any of the "optimizations" Perforce claims to have made for  
> high latency WAN environments? Since I'm either working on the same  
> network the server is own, or great distances (network hops) away,  
> how can I improve tunneled perforce performance? Is it even necessary?
>
> I keep some third party RPMs inside my p4 repository, and I've  
> forgotten to sync my notebook before leaving the office, leaving me  
> to sync ~40MB of binary data while on one of the aforementioned high  
> latency wireless networks, so any ways to improve speed would be great.
>
> Cheers
>
> R. Tyler Ballance: Lead Mac Developer at bleep. software
> contact: tyler at bleepsoft.com | jabber: tyler at jabber.geekisp.com
>
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