Hi,
this topic was raised several times in the past - the answers range from
"will be better/solved in the next version 1.7" or "it is due to ntfs vs
ext3/4" or it's the AV, network setup or the Windows file indexing
service. After disabling all those and running a test checkout on Linux
and Windows on the same machine I still get a result of Linux being 7.3x
times faster. Any ideas why?
Versions:
* 1.8.8 on Linux
* 1.8.6.254 command line from tortoise
* 1.7.16 svnserve linux
Note: Upgrading the server might be an option but I guess that is not the
root cause of the problem here?
The repository:
* Checkout size: 8.9 GB (without .svn folder 4.9 GB)
* 410 Folders
* 23,706 files
Commands used to test:
* Linux: $ time svn co svn://10.0.0.1/test > /dev/null
* Windows: PS Measure-Command { svn co svn://10.0.0.1/test > $null }
Results (tests run twice, better result taken):
* Linux on ext4 (journaling enabled): 1m 16s
* Linux on NTFS*: 3m 29s
* Windows 7 on NTFS*: 9m 19s
[*] Same partition
Client Machine
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* Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1230 V2 @ 3.30GHz
* checkout to HDD not SSD
* 1 GBit LAN to server
* Linux, Fedora 20 64 bit
* Windows 7, 64 bit
* AV deactivated
* IPv6 deactivated
* Windows file indexing service deactivated
* Windows auto updates deactivated
Server Setup
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$ svnserve -d --memory-cache-size 2048 -r /srv/svn_repos/
--cache-txdeltas yes --cache-fulltexts yes -c 0
Thanks for any pointers,
Florian
