Tortoise SVN : Repo browsing slowness on first view.

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krist...@googlemail.com

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Jul 28, 2008, 5:33:06 AM7/28/08
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Hi Everyone,
wondering if someone can help me out abit.

firstly i have to say i am really, really new to using SVN and
tortoise so please be patient and clear with any replys as i am still
getting my head around all the little features and settings.

anyway onto my question / problem, our company is using SVN as a
repository for all its code etc, we are using a mixture of SVN clients
but the main one preferred by our developers is tortoise. in total we
have 5 developers that access the repo on a daily basis and over the
last month or so have been complaining more and more about a gradual
slowdown in using the repo browser in tortoise.

we are all using the latest version of tortoise (1.5.1) which was
downloaded from the site about a week ago. when using the repo browser
for the first time in the morning everyone notices a delay in loading
the folders of around 4 - 5 minutes, we have tried just one person
incase all 5 were having a combined slowdown, and nothing seems to
improve it.

I have done some googling and followed the information provided here
(http://tortoisesvn.net/node/14) but that has made no difference, but
i do have to mention we have quite a large repository directory (97
projects), this is structured as shown.

|-SVN:<serverip>
|-<project 1>
|-<project 2>
|-<..>
|-<..>
|-<project 97>

any infomation you may be able to provide on this would be great, also
is there a way to reproduce this slowdown every time i open the repo
browser, as after the first initial slow connection every subsequent
load is really fast, and it would make testing any solutions you guys
offer a bit of a long process, if i have to wait 24 hours per test.

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Stefan Küng

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Jul 29, 2008, 5:31:04 AM7/29/08
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Is the repository browser slow or your view in the explorer? Those are
completely different things.

Stefan

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krist...@googlemail.com

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Jul 29, 2008, 10:14:53 AM7/29/08
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On Jul 29, 10:31 am, Stefan Küng <tortoise...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi stefan thanks for the reply the browser I am getting slow problems
from is from the right click menu in windows

Tortoisesvn > repo-browser

This is how our dec team does most of there checking out or creating
new folders etc I did not know it could be done any other way. The
majority of the slowdown in from the first load of that window, after
that the system seems fairly quick unless something new is done then
the slowdown reappears

krist...@googlemail.com

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Jul 29, 2008, 10:24:02 AM7/29/08
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Hi Stefan,
thanks for the reply regarding this, the browser we are getting
problems with is the one from the right click menu in windows, the
menu wordings are as follow.

TortoiseSVN > Repo-Browser

most of the slowness is normally from the first attempt to view the
repository through this window, after this initial slow loading things
tend to speed up and work as normal.

my appologies if you get this message twice but google seemed to fail
to post it in the first attempt so i have rewritten it.

thanks
Kris Davies

On Jul 29, 10:31 am, Stefan Küng <tortoise...@gmail.com> wrote:

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Stefan Küng

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Jul 30, 2008, 2:42:02 AM7/30/08
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krist...@googlemail.com wrote:
> Hi Stefan,
> thanks for the reply regarding this, the browser we are getting
> problems with is the one from the right click menu in windows, the
> menu wordings are as follow.
>
> TortoiseSVN > Repo-Browser
>
> most of the slowness is normally from the first attempt to view the
> repository through this window, after this initial slow loading things
> tend to speed up and work as normal.

When the repo browser first starts, it fetches the info of the URL ('svn
info' is the equivalent with the CL client).
If that is so slow, you should be able to speed things up by either
upgrading your server and/or doing a dump/reload cycle of your repository.

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krist...@googlemail.com

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Jul 31, 2008, 6:37:39 AM7/31/08
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Thanks for the info Stefan, our subversion server is using a quite out
of date version, so i have arranged time to get this upgraded to the
latest version. hopefully this will cure the problem. again thanks for
the help regarding this.

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