Dear all,
does anyone have a clue why the TortoiseSVN windows client (in Win32 XP and Vista) is so incredible slow when used with Putty and PAM? It seems it connects for each request since datatransfers (checkout) are not slow at all?
Any ideas how to change it? Thanks!
Okami
Update: I had no problems with SSH before. But I have to use key based authentification.
Hi,
Do you have a problem with standard SSH connections to the server as well? If it's generally slow to connect to your server via SSH, this could be a problem with reverse DNS lookups.
Andrew
I don't use Putty for my ssh+svn connections. I use TortoisePlink, which is a wrapper around Putty, I think. It is provided by TortoiseSVN in the install directory under bin.
Basically go to the Settings dialog, by right clicking in a windows explorer window -> TortoiseSVN -> Settings
Click on the Network item in the tree. Setup your SSH client by providing the path to TortoisePlink:
C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin\TortoisePlink.exe -l username -pw password
I have not ran into any troubles running my svn server this way and connecting to it with TortoiseSVN over SSH. The speed is great and so is the security.
What type of system are you connecting to? If you connect to OpenSUSE, for example, default DNS Reverse Lookup settings generally cause SSH connections to be very slow. If you can, put your client side IP address into the /etc/hosts table on the server. If Reverse DNS is your issue, this will resolve (remember to restart nscd daemon - "/etc/init.d/nscd restart" so that the change will take effect.)
SSH will be slower than native SVN protocol but not by an order or magnitude and not likely to a level that you will notice. But Reverse DNS timeouts could be several seconds per request.