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I thought I'd make my first SuperUser question relatively simple, though it's the kind of question that may
not get many responses as I'm not directly involved with the issue.
A colleague does his development in Windows XP running in Parallels on his Mac. We've just migrated
our VSS repository to SVN, and we've gone with TortoiseSVN as our client of choice with the Ankhsvn
plugin for Visual Studio.
On his XP instance, after installing TortoiseSVN, browsing through folders using Explorer is extremely
slow; about 15 - 30 seconds before the contents of the next folder displays. It's the slowest when opening
My Computer. Once he reaches a folder that contains the working content of an SVN project, Explorer
behaves quickly again as expected. It seems that TortoiseSVN may be spending a bunch of time
searching subfolders for stuff so it can do its icon-overlay thing, but that's just a guess.
I've used TortoiseSVN for years on both XP and Vista on far less powerful machines without any issues
with Explorer, so I'm attributing the slowness to it being run in a VM, though that may not be the actual
issue.
So has anyone encountered similar performance issues, and/or know of a fix? Keep in mind that any
requests to make changes to his configuration will need to be communicated and thus my response time
might be slow.
Thanks everyone!
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asked Oct 12 '09 at 18:13
Settings dialog->Icon Overlays->Exclude paths: Set this to e.g.,
C:\*
Then set the include paths to the path where the working copy is, e.g.
c:\users\mydocuments\myworkingcopy*
answered Oct 13 '09 at 10:52
1 Here's a link with a little more detail: paraesthesia.com/archive/2007/09/26/ John Allers Nov 13 '09 at
12:13
I ran into very similar issue several times, and the "cache" tweak did notwork, and I was inspired by this
post: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/tortoisesvn/IehAouUWrnA/srbHrGlCVR4J and tried using
Wireshark myself to monitor what had happened during context menu launch.
As expected, several netbios name queries were found searching for a machine name but timed out.
Then I remembered I had changed my computer name without restarting, so the tortoise svn is looking
for that new name! So I did a reboot and things all went back to normal.
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for that new name! So I did a reboot and things all went back to normal.
Hope this experience helps.
ADD: You can also try using Process Monitor (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645)
to trace whatever happens when the lagging occurs. It always helps to identify abnormal
registry/file/network access.
edited Dec 18 '12 at 2:12 answered Sep 5 '12 at 9:09
I've seen similar symptoms (slow responses in Explorer) from tortoise, but in a different context (working
copy was on a network share). In my situation, the solution was to go into Tortoise' settings and turn off
Icon Overlay caching.
answered Oct 12 '09 at 18:18
Tried it; no change. Does Explorer need to get restarted or anything? Cory Larson Oct 12 '09 at 18:41
It's worth a shot. Since it's a shell extension you would need to restart explorer at least, probably windows, to
be sure everything is cleared out. Joel Coehoorn Oct 12 '09 at 19:55
You can set the "Include paths"-setting in TortoiseSVN to let it know that it should only display overlay
icons on the directories where you have your SVN project. The setting is found in Settings->Icon
Overlays->Include paths.
answered Oct 12 '09 at 18:26
1 Tried it; no change. Does Explorer need to get restarted? Cory Larson Oct 12 '09 at 18:42
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