I've had some experience with large check-out/in. The problem isn't the
size itself, but the number of files.It looks like most file systems has
a noticeable overhead for each file it has to create. I've had some
problems related to this when checking out a working copy to a nfs
mount. NFS performs really poor when trying to perform operations on
many files.
But to answer your question, I don't think 10-12 minutes are that much
considering the number of files. Remember that all later operations will
only be performed on a small amount of data. If you keep your working
copy on a network drive, you can probably improve performance by moving
it to your local drive, but that might lead to some backup issues..
Kjell
Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Dec 19, 2005, at 13:18, Juergen Richtsfeld wrote:
>
>> I'm just about to try around with subversion. But it seems to be
>> quite slow.
>>
>> my server has about 1GHZ, 1GB ram, windows 2000 server.
>> my repository has about 350 MB in about 11000 files. my repository
>> was created with default settings (svn 1.2) (bdb). my client is a P4
>> 3Ghz with 1 gig ram.
>>
>> doing a clean checkout takes about 12 minutes with apache and about
>> 10 minutes with svnserve (100 mbit lan).
>>
>> I'm currently testing with fsfs. are my measurements normal? i think
>> it's quite slow. the problem is, we're currently using ms sourcesafe,
>> which is much faster (but lacks lot of features).
>
> I don't know if 10 or 12 minutes is normal for a working copy of that
> size. I have heard that checkouts on Windows take longer than on other
> operating systems. But the important thing to remember is that you
> only do a full checkout very rarely, usually just when you first start
> working with Subversion. From then on you can just update the existing
> working copy, which should be much faster.
>
>
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