RE: Subversion/Eclipse Performance on Windows

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Weintraub [mailto:qazwart_at_gmail.com]
> Sent: donderdag 11 december 2008 21:21
> To: Bob Archer
> Cc: Mark Phippard; Toby Thain; Hilco Wijbenga;
> users_at_subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Re: Subversion/Eclipse Performance on Windows
>
> The big problem with Windows is the anti-virus software which checks
> each and every file copied onto the system from the network.

For optimal performance also make sure that TortoiseSVN is not watching your
directories while you perform expensive operations.

The TSVNCache process has a file system monitor that scans 'open'
directories (and below that) for changes. This continuous scan can really
hurt your disk performance.. especially when you also have that anti-virus
software that watches the original changes and TSVNCache monitoring the
changes (by reading the files).

If you're comparing merge performance, please try with Subversion 1.5.4
instead of older versions. Some unneeded disk scanning issues were resolved
in that version.

Another noticeable speedup will be that the Subversion 1.6 libraries will
reduce delays when it detects a file system that has a better timestamp
precision than 1 second. (Subversion has to wait until the next timestamp
after many operations).

NTFS users will see this as performance improvement of the working copy, as
will users of other OSs with a modern file system. (ufs on FreeBSD, on
Linux: reiser4, ext4 and some others.)

        Bert

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