Slow operation after large import

[Paul Gregory <PG...@superscape.com>]

The company I work for are considering switching to Subversion for our
version control. While evaluating it, I have installed it on a low power
Linux machine (P4 450MHz) and am running some tests with one of our current
project repositories. 

I imported a copy of the repository from a clean checkout of our current VC
system, and all went well. However, while trying out some merging and basic
operations I noticed that selecting the "Show Log" option in TortoiseSVN, it
just seemed to lockup. I tried from the command line and it was fine, until
I realised that TortoiseSVN shows the log information, presumably by doing a
"svn log -v". Sure enough, running this on the command line, locally on the
Linux machine, or remotely via svn:// results in a huge delay while it
constructs the list of files imported at revision 1. 

First of all is this expected? The repository consists of some 16,000 files.
If not, can anyone point me at some way to determine the cause of the delay
in my installation? Secondly, if it is to be expected, is there any way to
avoid it? As it stands the "Show log" feature of Tortoise is of no use to us
like this, but it is an important feature we would need to use.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Cheers

Paul Gregory
Project Lead : Product Development : Superscape PLC
Tel: +44(0)1256 745745 | Fax: +44(0)1256 745777 | Web: www.superscape.com |
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Re: Slow operation after large import

[Josh Pieper <jj...@pobox.com>]

Martin Tomes wrote:
> Paul Gregory wrote:
> 
> >Linux machine, or remotely via svn:// results in a huge delay while it
> >constructs the list of files imported at revision 1. 
> 
> It is expected.  You could try importing the files in smaller batches to 
> see if that helps.  At least it wouldn't look like it had hung as there 
> would be more smaller revisions to show.

If using the new FSFS backend, soon to be released in Subversion 1.1,
this problem is fixed.

-Josh

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Re: Slow operation after large import

[Martin Tomes <li...@tomes.org>]

Paul Gregory wrote:

> Linux machine, or remotely via svn:// results in a huge delay while it
> constructs the list of files imported at revision 1. 

It is expected.  You could try importing the files in smaller batches to see if that helps.  At 
least it wouldn't look like it had hung as there would be more smaller revisions to show.

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