On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 03:26:36PM +0100, Jonathan Holloway wrote: > then forking a process/starting a thread to svn update the subfolders? > Does this make sense from a > performance point of view or is the bottleneck of disk I/O always > hit pretty early on by doing this?
Did you make any performance measurements? Checkout is mostly I/O bound, so I doubt doing this has much benefit unless you have an I/O system that is highly parallelized.
