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Re: Subversion/Eclipse Performance on Windows

From: David Weintraub <qazwart_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 23:00:39 -0500

It's mainly using Subversion for updating and checking out where they
notice it slower. I know that Subversion has a lot more data that's
brought over the network, and Windows is not good at transferring data
over the network, but it should be faster than CVS in updating,
diffing, revering, and other activities because it doesn't have to
connect to the server to fetch a lot of data.

We are using http:// w/ LDAP authorization, and FSFS. One programmer
is saying that FSFS is what makes it so slow.

Anyway, I was just curious whether or not this seemed to be an issue
with anyone. Or whether Subclipse or Subversive was a better plugin
for Eclipse.

On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Andy Levy <andy.levy_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 14:26, David Weintraub <qazwart_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> Here's what we have:
>>
>> * Subversion is running on a Linux box under a fairly recent version
>> of Redhat. This is not exactly a high performance box, but I don't
>> think this is an issue. They use Subclipse as the plugin to allow
>> Eclipse to talk to Subversion.
>> * Our Subversion server is running release 1.5. However, it is still
>> using Format 2 instead of Format 3 because of issues with viewvc.
>> * Developers use Eclipse running on a Windows XP box. These boxes are
>> Pentium Dual Core running around 2.8Ghz and have betwen 1Gb and 2Gb of
>> memory. Diskspace is about 100Gb.
>> * Our application runs under JBoss. It isn't a .NET application (which
>> I know can cause performance issues). However, it really is a sort of
>> sprawling application. There are lots of JAR files that have to be
>> checked out (Most are probably not even needed, but that's another
>> story altogether). However, once you do a checkout, the JAR files
>> don't change.
>>
>> A couple of developers are complaining about very poor performance.
>> They claim that Subversion is much slower than CVS (which we just
>> converted over from).
>>
>> I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions for improving
>> performance. Would putting the .svn folders as exemptions in our
>> .project file help? Would using a particular version of Eclipse or a
>> particular version of Subclipse? What about Subversive?
>
> I think more detail is needed. Is the perception that Subversion is
> slowing down the application when running under JBoss? Or that
> operations in Eclipse are slow? Or are all Subversion operations
> consistently slower than their CVS counterparts?
>
> What's the definition of "much slower"? What would adding the .svn
> folders as exceptions in .project accomplish (IOW, what will it do
> that isn't being done now, and how do you think that would impact
> performance)?
>
> I don't think a specific version will change things either way, other
> than the notion that newer versions are generally all-around better
> than older versions.
>

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