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I've recently set up a small turnkeylinux revision control VM (which has about 256MB RAM), and am attempting to clone one of the repositories I pushed up to it. It is very fast to push to (via ssh) but is extremely slow to pull from.

Here's what I get if I leave it till SSH times out:

$ git pull
andrewm@1.2.3.4's password:
remote: Counting objects: 403, done.
Read from remote host 1.2.3.4: The connection was aborted
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
fatal: early EOF

I attempted the clone like so:

> mkdir myProj
> cd myProj
> git init
> git remote add origin git+ssh://andrewm@1.2.3.4/srv/repos/git/myProj
> git pull

When I issue the pull command it reaches 50% almost instantly, and then halts. It slowly creeps forward a few more percent (one attempt reached 66%) and then eventually dies if left long enough.

This repo is tiny with only a handful of revisions so far. My main repo is much bigger and will also be unusable unless this issue is identified.

Any ideas what could be causing the sudden slowdown?

Update

I just confirmed that the VM is slow when connected using git:// protocol as well. It can't therefore be a problem with ssh. Updating the question title accordingly.

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Try to transfer a large file using scp too, that might tell you if the connection issue is related to git or just connectivity in general – Daenyth Jul 7 '10 at 3:36
Also try multiple simultaneous ssh logins, and see if that works (I had problems with my turnkey there). – Thilo Jul 7 '10 at 4:35
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