SVN/TortoiseSVN painfully slow

Question

I\'m experiencing painfully slow operations with one of our SVN repositories/projects.

For example, it\'s taking 5-10 minutes to revert the changes in one small file (10

Answer 1

Our SVN was running painfully slow through TortoiseSVN, Eclipse and command line. Commits and exports were slow. Our Zend Framework-based PHP projects would take an age to update and popping in a small commit of about three files would take 5-10 minutes.

Our SVN virtual machine (CentOS) only had 700 MB of RAM which seemed reasonable for a Linux CLI only running Subversion via Apache and has been running fine for about one year. We've only got about 20 projects and only three developers.

I've upped it to 1.5 GB of RAM and things are running much faster now, back to our old speeds.