Good evening,
We have just switched our development project from CVS to Subversion.
There are about 3500 files in lots of subdirectories, and from my point of view,
the switch is going pretty well. The biggest user question so far is why is
checkout so slow compared to CVS, and even more, why is it so slow compared to
Subversion on Linux? I couldn't find much recent (after 2004) discussion about
this on the mailing list or the FAQ, but if someone has a pointer to some
documentation or discussio bn, I'de happy to have it.
More detail on our setup:
Access method: svn+ssh.
Windows client: cygwin subversion (1.2.3) and cygwin ssh (OpenSSH_4.3p1).
Linux client: svn version 1.2.3, fsfs
Our source code checkout from Subversion (including the .svn directories) is
about 250Meg.
Our time for svn checkout from the local network is ranges from 10 to 20
minutes. My time for svn checkout over a slower DSL line (I work from home)
also ranges from about 10 to 20 minutes.
The time for svn checkout on the local network on a Linux client (not the server
machine) was reported to be 42 seconds!
From a previous, relatively short subversion email thread (in 2004, I think) I
might say that the checkout time for Subversion on Windows is longer than the
equivalent time for CVS because
- SVN writes the entire original file to local disk.
- SVN writes more files to local disk
- SVN writes does more setting of modification times and access lists (?).
As to why Linux is so much faster than Windows, I would guess that Linux file
system optimization is just a closer match with what Subversion uses that is the
Windows file optimization, although I guess there's a possibility that the
Windows client could use some optimization work (?).
Other data: Running the 1.3.0 Windows client from the command prompt rather than
the cygwin shell appears to yield some performance improvement, but nothing as
dramatic as the Windows vs. Linux difference.
Questions:
- Any pointers on how to speed up the Windows checkout performance?
- Does the Linux vs Windows performance difference seem reasonable (in line with
experience)?
- Anything I can do to help with speeding up the Windows client performance (I'm
willing to invest a some development time on this).
- other comments?
Thanks in advance for your time,
--Glenn S.
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Received on Tue Mar 7 08:22:03 2006