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Re: Tortoise 1.4.6 locks Explorer on Windows-XP and affects file access performance

From: John Lundbäck <john.lundback_at_arcticus-systems.com>
Date: 2007-12-28 15:08:14 CET

Thanks I'll try that when I get back next week.

/John

Leandro Silva wrote:
> John, I have experienced these problems too...
>
> The solution that I am using is to turn off the status cache...
>
> 2007/12/28, John Lundbäck <john.lundback@arcticus-systems.com>:
>> Hi all I've experienced a very curious problem.
>>
>> We are running subversion 1.4.6 linked against Apache 2.2 on a W2k3
>> server SP2 and has been doing so for a year or so and have had no
>> problems of any kind when using earlier releases of Tortoise but after I
>> installed the latest 1.4.6 release things went down hill.
>>
>> When I expand the working directory in Explorer it hangs forever and the
>> only way of restoring this is to kill Explorer process which then
>> informs me that TortoiseProcWnd process is not responding.
>>
>> I tried to wipe the entire work set from my local disc and getting a
>> fresh copy from the server and that sorted the problem as long as I did
>> not log out and in again to our domain.
>>
>> However next problem was that when building either from makefiles or a
>> Visual Studio 2003 project with 100-300 files the build speed is
>> severely affected by something that make my dual core machine crawl next
>> to a stand still. There is no lockup but the file access seems to be
>> extremely slow and I cannot tell from the Task manager that there is any
>> particular tortoise process stealing any cpu power the file access is
>> just painfully slow.
>>
>> When I logged back in today I was met with the same problems once again
>> and with that I switched back to 1.4.5 and all is working well again.
>>
>> Also note that the Windows-XP machines I run on has all the latest
>> patches and does not run any virus/antiwhatever which I uninstalled
>> during my investigation of this issue.
>>
>> Have anyone else experienced these problems with the 1.4.6 release of
>> Tortoise?
>>
>>
>> Regards
>> /John
>>
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