On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 08:13:49AM +0000, Ketting, Michael wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I've recently picked up the subversion 1.7 beta 2 build (included in the latest TortoiseSVN beta) and did a checkout of our solution (~10,000 files, ~2,000 folders, ~180MB).
> With Subversion 1.6.1, it takes roughly 5 minutes, with Subversion 1.7 beta 2, it takes about 10 minutes.
>
> Is this performance degradation inherent with the use of the centralized SVN information, and thus an intentional tradeoff for the blazing fast Commits/Updates?
> Naively, I'd hoped that the checkout speed would get closer to the export-speed with Subversion 1.7, since the Updates are faster, too.
>
> Interestingly, it looks like the export speed also degraded. With Subversion 1.6 it took about 90 seconds, with Subversion 1.7, it now takes 110 seconds.
>
> Regards, Michael
Is there anything unusual about your setup? E.g. is your working copy
on a network filesystem or on a local drive?
Generally speaking, checkout speed depends on the files/directories ratio.
In our own measurements with contrived use cases[1] 1.7 checkout is
faster than 1.6 if few files are spread across many directories.
But if there are many files and few directories the numbers work
against 1.7 (checkout is about 1.5 times slower for 100 files in a
single directory). Your numbers show that the difference can be quite
large in real-world scenarios.
It is quite possible that there is room for more optimisation and that
performance fixes will be made even after the 1.7.0 release in patch releases.
Thanks for testing the beta! Reports like yours are very valuable.
[1] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/subversion-dev/201107.mbox/%3C20110725021010.D5DDF2019C@svn-qavm.apache.org%3E
Received on 2011-08-09 12:16:36 CEST