Matthew Bentham <mj...@artvps.com> writes: > For me on CYGWIN_NT-6.0-WOW64 brahe 1.7.1(0.218/5/3) 2009-12-07 11:48 > i686 Cygwin
Thanks for testing! > $ svn --version > svn, version 1.6.9 (r901367) > > Create the test repo using the shell script, repeat "$ time svn > status" a few times: > real 0m37.303s > real 0m15.754s > real 0m15.832s I know Subversion is slow on Windows but that is extreme, it's about the same as my Linux machine when the cache is cold and it has to wait for real disk IO; once in memory its an order of magnitude faster. I suspect the cygwin layer might be contributing to that (15 seconds of CPU). Would it be possible for you to try "svn status" with a non-cygwin client? -- Philip