On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 09:28, Neil Bird <n...@jibbyjobby.co.uk> wrote: > > We have a graphics-oriented code-base that's auto-generated and has >5000 > source files in one directory. While I can check this out OK on Linux, > we're seeing an unusable slow-down on Windows XP (NTFS), both using Tortoise > directly, and as a test on Linux with the Windows drive mapped over CIFS. > > The checkout starts sensibly enough, but then gets steadily slower and > slower and slower, to the point were we're not sure it'd actually ever end. > > I know that there's a negative speed difference on NTFS, and that 1.7's > WC-NG might make this better, but this is getting near-logarithmically > slower. > > Is that to be expected, or at least known about?
It's known and oft-lamented. NTFS just doesn't handle this scenario well - it's probably one of the reasons FSFS sharding was introduced (I'm speculating a bit here). How's the checkout performance with a command-line client on that XP box? It could also be your on-access virus scanner, and testing w/ the command-line client may help diagnose that.
