RE: Can't open file 'D:\Repositories\repo\db\current': The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process

Thanks for the suggestions. I must admit, I have a tendency to blame
anti-virus software for most of my problems too. This particular brand
is McAfee - it's already given some trouble on this machine by
preventing dumps of MySQL databases - scanning the C:\WINDOWS\TEMP area
and causing apparently random failures. I will try this out and see if
it helps.

I think that Linux would probably give less trouble overall, but I
don't have control over what OS is used.

regards,

--
Jon Ashley
> Jonathan Ashley wrote:
> > - change of anti-virus software (which I have asked nicely
> to not concern
> >   itself with the contents of the repository areas)
>
> This is the one thing that screams out at me.  Microsoft AV
> software hooks *all* disk access at a very low level (and
> does so as a chain), and frequently can interfere with
> applications that write lots of small temporary files.  As I
> understand it, most AV packages simply return NOOP/SKIP for
> directories/files which have been excluded from scanning, but
> the hook(s) themselves are still called for *every* *single*
> *file* *access*.  This can disrupt the timing of numerous
> applications (not just Subversion) that rely on temporary files.
>
> Here's some suggestions:
>
> 1) Try turning off your AV software for a while and see if
> your problems go away;
>
> 2) Disable write scanning (in other words only have
> "on-access" scanning enabled);
>
> 3) Uninstall that AV package and install one of the other
> packages (either a commercial demo or one of the free
> package, WinClam seems nice).
>
> 4) Install a Linux computer (I've grown to like Centos5
> actually) and get a much higher performance repository in the
> process (you can still authenticate your users with Windows
> via Apache)... ;-)
>
> HTH
>
> John
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