[megapoliss]

I remember that: for repos ~ 1Gb Mercurial just became unusable. It took half of day just to clone the repo.

[btreecat]

That sounds like y'all may have been storing binary blobs and large files with out the right plugins setup.

[megapoliss]

Just rename root directory of project and double size of your repo Mercurial didn't supported rename, and did delete/add instead, so size of repo grows pretty fast