On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 4:27 AM, pjaytycy <pieterjan.busscha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > > we recently upgraded svn on our remote build server from 1.5 to 1.6. > This caused a drastic reduction in speed: > > u...@server:~$ time svn log -l 25 -q https://<repo> > [… snip …] > > real 0m22.745s > user 0m0.192s > sys 0m0.048s > > After some debugging, we found the cause to be entirely on my windows > pc, not related to the linux server: > > => I log in with putty over SSH and had X-forwarding turned on > => I did not have an X-server running on my windows pc > > The combination of these 2 made command-line svn on the linux server > extremely slow. I think this is due to the gnome/kde keyring > integration which is new in 1.6 > > So, to solve this: either run xming before starting putty, or turn off > X-forwarding in putty.
Or switch to NX, from www.nomachine.com. I'm extremely happy with it for well-managed X sessions, especially Xterm, optimized for low bandwidth remote links.
