Re: Cloning does not work on available download bandwidth changes

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On 2024-05-22 at 15:02:51, Paweł Bogusławski wrote:
> Started to clone big git repo on not-too-fast, _stable_ VDSL link (up to
> 20mbps down)...
> 
>     $ git clone https://github.com/googleapis/google-api-go-client
>     Cloning into 'google-api-go-client'...
>     remote: Enumerating objects: 644446, done.
>     remote: Counting objects: 100% (6922/6922), done.
>     remote: Compressing objects: 100% (2904/2904), done.
>     Receiving objects:   0% (3859/644446), 20.82 MiB | 1.01 MiB/s
> 
> ...and then started to watch a VOD movie on same link; when VOD buffers
> data, eats almost all available down bandwidth and leaves only about 100
> kB/s for git...
> 
>     Receiving objects:   1% (7111/644446), 44.49 MiB | 130.00 KiB/s
> 
> ...and when VOD stops buffering and whole bandwith is available for git
> again, git transfer starts to grow...
> 
>     Receiving objects:   1% (7660/644446), 50.56 MiB | 575.00 KiB/s
> 
> ...but finally git throws an error
> 
>     error: 181 bytes of body are still expected5 MiB | 1015.00 KiB/s
>     fetch-pack: unexpected disconnect while reading sideband packet
>     fatal: early EOF
>     fatal: index-pack failed
> 
> or sometimes:
> 
>     error: RPC failed; curl 92 HTTP/2 stream 5 was not closed cleanly:
> CANCEL (err 8)
>     error: 6109 bytes of body are still expected
>     fetch-pack: unexpected disconnect while reading sideband packet
>     fatal: early EOF
>     fatal: fetch-pack: invalid index-pack output
> 
> No such problems when downloading bigger file (i.e. linux kernel source)
> with wget or curl instead of git clone (wget/curl transfer drops to about
> 100 kB/s when VOD buffers and increases to full speed when VOD is not
> transferring and transfer finishes successfully).
> 
> Sounds like a bug in git; should not throw an error on available download
> bandwidth changes as wget and curl do and should not require any params
> tuning (to stop users flooding bugtrackers).

I don't believe this is a bug in Git.  The problem here is a network
issue of some sort that's causing the connection to be interrupted or
dropped.  This is very common, but the possible causes are many.

A lot of times we see this it's some sort of proxy, and that can be a
non-default antivirus or firewall or TLS MITM device, but that's usually
on Windows, and you're using Debian.  It can also be just a bad
connection, poor traffic management by your ISP, or a flaky wireless or
wired network card.

My _guess_ about what's happening here is poor traffic management:
because video is typically flagged as low-latency in DSCP, some device
on the path is prioritizing it to the exclusion of all other traffic,
which is causing the Git connection to be dropped.  I have no proof of
this, though.
-- 
brian m. carlson (they/them or he/him)
Toronto, Ontario, CA

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