On 2/1/07, Chris Green <Chris.Green@sas.co.uk> wrote:
> We have a Linux box with SVN on and Windows clients running an SVN client,
> the windows workstation maps a drive to the Linux server and another to the
> Windows server, when checking out files from the workstation to the mapped
> drive on the Windows server it runs very slow, we've found temporarily
> disabling the antivirus on the Windows server makes the problem disappear
> (its Kaspersky antivirus 5) obviously this isn't ideal and we cant leave the
> AV disabled, the AV product has exclusions set on network drives etc but it
> makes no difference.
>
> Wondered if anyone else has come across this problem and knows of a
> resolution?
On-access virus scanners don't play well with Subversion. You've
already discovered one of the better resolutions - disable the
scanning while doing the checkout. It's odd, though, that even with
scanning network drives disabled, it's still acting like it's scanning
those locations. Is it the virus scan on the server that's causing the
problem, or the one on the client which has mapped the drive? If the
latter, that makes perfect sense.
Another option might be to tell the scanner to exclude any directory named .svn.
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Received on Thu Feb 1 19:56:53 2007