The svn ls portion is a trivial amount of the overall time to run. -> time svn ls --depth infinity > f
real 0m0.676s user 0m0.054s sys 0m0.011s -> time xargs svn info < f real 0m47.679s user 0m1.163s sys 0m2.752s -> time svn info --depth infinity > /dev/null real 5m56.693s user 0m14.142s sys 0m10.885s -----Original Message----- From: Philip Martin [mailto:philip.mar...@wandisco.com] Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2011 10:50 AM To: Daniel Shahaf Cc: Bert Huijben; RYTTING,MICHAEL (A-ColSprings,ex1); dev@subversion.apache.org Subject: Re: Really lousy performance with svn info --depth infinity Daniel Shahaf <d...@daniel.shahaf.name> writes: > So presumably the second one should really be: > > % svn ls -R >f > % time xargs svn info <f It depends what one wants to measure. If the ls time is significant it would mean that the recursive call has an even bigger problem. -- uberSVN: Apache Subversion Made Easy http://www.uberSVN.com