Re: What is a good Windows CVS client?

[Kaz Kylheku]

address@hidden (Sandeep Gupta) wrote in message news:<address@hidden>...
> We have a repository that is 124MB of ,v files.  The checkout is 92MB.
> The server is running on Redhat 8.0 with CVS version 1.11.2.
> 
> All clients are using pserver.
> 
> A checkout from a Redhat 8.0 client takes 30 - 45 seconds for a clean
> checkout (no preexisting files on the local machine)
> 
> A checkout on Windows XP using cvs.exe from cvshome.org takes over 3
> minutes for a clean checkout!
> 
> We tried using cygwin's cvs and it is about 25 - 50% faster.

It's unsurprising that a POSIX program ported straight to an
independently developed, properly done POSIX layer performs better
than a version of that program hacked to directly target the platform.

(By the way, what do you mean by 50% faster? 50% faster than 3 minutes
is 2 minutes).

> Why are the Windows XP clients so much slower?

Because Windows XP is a poorly implemented, slow operating system
kernel with sluggish filesystem operations?