[Subclipse-users] merge is very slow

Hello.

We using Subclipse 1.2.4 with SVN-Kit with Eclipse 3.2 on macOSX 10.4
(MacBook) for a JAVA project with a lot of small feature projects
(week to week deployments).
Everyting is developed in branches.
So we often merge.
We all experience the merging being very slow accompanied with heavy
kernel activity of the CPU.
Last time a colleague included the spring2-source-files in his branch
(lots of small JAVA files).
Yesterday he startet to merge this branch to a new branch. The merge
is still running: Each little JAVA file which exists in the branch
which is merged to the working copy takes about 1 minute to be
merged, although those files do not exist in the working copy, yet.
We wonder why it takes that long to detect, that the file does not
exist in the working copy an ist to be added there? And why do the
two CPU-cores suffer such a heavy kernel-usage?
Is there a way to improve this setting?

Regards
Alexander Knöller

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