On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 9:28 AM, 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.
Are you *normally* out to a CIFS shared location, or to local NTFS disk? CIFS is very "chatty", and can often take 10 times as long to do a checkout of a 1 Gig software working copy (in my personal experience, 30 minutes instead of 3 for local disk). Checkout to local disk, then copying it over to CIFS is grotesquely faster. Maintaining a nightly updaed, checked out working copy for copying to local working copies is also very effective to avoid this slow down: the working copy can then be updated, far, far more effectively. > 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? > > > (we're going to jigger the files around into sep. directories to get the > individual counts down; I expect that to help in this instance). > > -- > [neil@fnx ~]# rm -f .signature > [neil@fnx ~]# ls -l .signature > ls: .signature: No such file or directory > [neil@fnx ~]# exit >
