JC>> It looks like there is a 60 second limit. EZ> I think the tarball is produced on the fly, so it isn't the bandwidth EZ> that limits the speed, it's the CPU processing resources needed to EZ> xz-compress the files. Try the same with .tar.gz, and you will see EZ> quite a different speed.
Indeed. I should have thought of that. Grabbing http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/snapshot/emacs-master.tar across doccis works and takes 63 seconds, so the limit is more likely to be an RLIMIT on the xz(1) process. Perhaps an RLIMIT_CPU of 60 seconds or an RLIMIT_AS or RLIMIT_DATA which hits after xz(1) spends around 60 s compressing the emacs tar? -JimC -- James Cloos <cl...@jhcloos.com> OpenPGP: 0x997A9F17ED7DAEA6
