Re: Tortoise SVN : Repo browsing slowness on first view.

kristiaand_at_googlemail.com wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> wondering if someone can help me out abit.
>
> firstly i have to say i am really, really new to using SVN and
> tortoise so please be patient and clear with any replys as i am still
> getting my head around all the little features and settings.
>
> anyway onto my question / problem, our company is using SVN as a
> repository for all its code etc, we are using a mixture of SVN clients
> but the main one preferred by our developers is tortoise. in total we
> have 5 developers that access the repo on a daily basis and over the
> last month or so have been complaining more and more about a gradual
> slowdown in using the repo browser in tortoise.
>
> we are all using the latest version of tortoise (1.5.1) which was
> downloaded from the site about a week ago. when using the repo browser
> for the first time in the morning everyone notices a delay in loading
> the folders of around 4 - 5 minutes, we have tried just one person
> incase all 5 were having a combined slowdown, and nothing seems to
> improve it.
>
> I have done some googling and followed the information provided here
> (http://tortoisesvn.net/node/14) but that has made no difference, but
> i do have to mention we have quite a large repository directory (97
> projects), this is structured as shown.
>
> |-SVN:<serverip>
> |-<project 1>
> |-<project 2>
> |-<..>
> |-<..>
> |-<project 97>
>
> any infomation you may be able to provide on this would be great, also
> is there a way to reproduce this slowdown every time i open the repo
> browser, as after the first initial slow connection every subsequent
> load is really fast, and it would make testing any solutions you guys
> offer a bit of a long process, if i have to wait 24 hours per test.

Is the repository browser slow or your view in the explorer? Those are
completely different things.

Stefan

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