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RE: Windows vs. Linux Performance

From: Ladd Angelius <langelius_at_jupitermedia.com>
Date: 2005-04-25 19:10:56 CEST

Kelly,

I would second Daniel's suggestion -- this sounds like duplexing.

~ Ladd

-----Original Message-----
From: daniel@email.unc.edu [mailto:daniel@email.unc.edu]
Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 9:15 AM
To: users@subversion.tigris.org
Subject: Re: Windows vs. Linux Performance

Kelly,

One thing to check is the duplex settings on the ethernet switch and the
windows client. I've seen similar slowness when auto-negotiation is turned
off in the ethernet switch and the client comes up with different settings
than the switch.

Daniel

Quoting Kelly Burkhart <nj2005@kkcsm.net>:

> We are attempting to migrate from CVS to SVN and notice very poor
> windows checkout performance compared to Linux. We're running the
> following:
>
> Server:
> Dual Opteron 242 2GB RAM, SuSE 9.1 (32 bit)
> svn 1.1.4 (r13838) (source download, built locally)
> access via svnserve
>
> Linux Client:
> Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.66GHz, (HT, 4cpu), SuSE 9.1
> svn 1.1.4 (r13838) (source download, built locally)
>
> Windows Client:
> Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.66GHz, (HT, 4cpu), WinXP Pro, SP2
> svn 1.1.4 (r13838) (binary download from tigris.org)
>
>
> I used cvs2svn to convert our cvs repository of about 4500 source
> files in 304 directories to subversion. I did not include branches
> or tags, but I did include trunk history.
>
>
> To checkout trunk w/svn command line app:
> Linux: 0m 15s
> Windows: 2m 53s
>
> To export trunk:
> Linux: 0m 6s
> Windows: 0m 57s
>
> The Windows checkout starts fairly quickly and seems to run in
> bursts, pausing periodically.
>
> Can anyone shed any light on why Windows svn is so much slower than
> Linux? The difference is so great the Windows client must be doing
> something fundamentally different than the Linux client. Windows is
> not *that* much slower than Linux in general.
>
> BTW, tortoise checkout is even slower than command line checkout.
>
> -K
>
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