[cvsnt] Re: cvsnt performance on windows

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Wed May 18 17:10:45 BST 2005


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Matt Schuckmann wrote:
> Hi, do you have any large repository files?
> Possibly large binary repository files.
> 
> A while ago I noticed that for some operations CVS can be very slow with
> large files because it loads the entire file into memory (or memory maps it,
> I'm not sure which) and if you don't have enough memory on the system you
> get a big performance hit.
> 
It should also be noted that Antivirus 'real time' scanning can reduce 
the server to less than 30% of its normal speed, and should be switched off.

Tony



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