On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 11:32:47PM +0600, Victor Sudakov wrote: > After the 15000th commit, the size of the repository on disk is 5.5G > with the working directory size being 120M. Besides, after several > thousand commits to this directory SVN slows down considerably. This > must be some design flaw (or peculiarity if you like) of SVN.
Probably related to the way directories are represented in the repository. See http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2011-02/0007.shtml and also http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2011-02/0014.shtml for some hints to how this currently works.