On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Paul Burba <ptbu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Running an upgrade of a trunk WC on my machine under xperf takes > 00:03:46.351 elapsed and 11.44s CPU time using my primary drive (320 > GB, SATA-II, 7200 rpm, 16 MB Cache, NTFS). Subversion spends 50s > total disk service time (46.8s of that is read service time). > > I've defragmented this disk, real time virus scanning is disabled, > TSVN is currently not installed so no overhead from TSVNCache, > compression is turned off, I'm using Win 7 Home Premium so there is no > option to use encryption, content indexing is turned off, > write-caching is enabled, write-cache buffer flushing is disabled, 8.3 > filename creation is turned off, and last access timestamp is > disabled. > > Are any Windows users out there seeing similar performance with 'svn > upgrade' or have any suggestions for further optimizing Win 7 disk > performance? > > As I detailed in my earlier response to Julian, upgrading a 2GB > working copy on my box took close to 4 hours! I'm fine if this poor > performance is simply something to do with my particular configuration > (or flaky disk), but if this is what Windows users in general have to > look forward too we might have a problem. Do we obtain and release a lot of those old-style SVN WC "locks". We know those are really slow on Windows so if we are creating/releasing/creating/releasing these locks that might explain it? -- Thanks Mark Phippard http://markphip.blogspot.com/
