For file:// access I had to mount the repository via NFS, and access is much slower.
LANG=$l1 time svn co file:///... -r244060 C8-32-$l1-file C8-32-en_US.UTF-8-file 32.32user 21.51system 5:36.36elapsed 16%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 519408maxresident)k 1101632inputs+1799224outputs (4major+36982minor)pagefaults 0swaps LANG=$l2 time svn co file:///...-r244060 C8-32-$l2-file C8-32-C-file (core dump) 18.69user 14.67system 2:04.79elapsed 26%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 3398640maxresident)k 125864inputs+2651200outputs (29major+213703minor)pagefaults 0swaps It fails with a core dump again, but earlier than with the other access methods. A full check-out results in a wc of ~450MB. Here are the file counts for the various check-out attempts with svn 1.8.0: $ for d in C8*; do echo "$(find $d | wc -l) $d"; done 16658 C8-32-C-file 22359 C8-32-C-serf 22372 C8-32-C-svnssh 30526 C8-32-en_US.UTF-8-file 30526 C8-32-en_US.UTF-8-serf 30526 C8-32-en_US.UTF-8-svnssh 30526 C8-64-C-serf 30526 C8-64-en_US.UTF-8-serf - Michael
