subversion is VERY slow

We have an app with about 15k files in it (and a bunch of folders). When
this app is checked out as a working copy, it becomes 60k files and 30k
folders. Needless to say, it becomes very slow to do anything on a global
level with this app, so we are forced to do individual commits from within
individual folders.

We are also unable to do any sort of switching of branches as it would take
forever. As it does to update the whole working copy (or do a checkout).

I've set up a ram drive locally, and was able to do a checkout fairly quick.
I believe the disk access time is killing us when we are using subversion on
our development server.

Is there a way to speed it up, short of setting up a ram drive on the
development and production servers?

Russ
Received on Thu Apr 6 14:45:05 2006