Overlay icons slows Total Commander (e.g. TortoiseSVN)

[lzap]

Hello,

after TortoiseSVN installation Total Commander freezes for a very short time when I return focus to it. For example when I am in the working svn directory and I edit some file (with e.g. notepad) and I close the notepad, Total Commander do not respond for a second or two. I can press arrows up or down and nothing happens.

I have found that the reason of this behaivour is TortoiseSVN -- its probably reading some cache and setting up the icons. The bad thing is even when I switch off the overlay icons in Total Commander or I set not to use system icons at all the problem is still there. Switching this feature off in the TortoiseSVN do not help too.

Is it possible to separate the icon displaying in another thread to allow the Total Commander to react on user inputs? Its a bit annoying when you edit with F4 several files and you have to wait 2 seconds between each edit.

Or is it possible to turn this off? I can live without icons but not without TortoiseSVN (or Total Commander)... It seems only version 7.X has this problem because earlier versions didnt work with TortoiseSVN overlay icons.

[ghisler(Author)]

I do not have this problem with Tortoise here. Anyone else?

[lzap]

Thats bad -- for me. I am using 7.01.

[lzap]

Btw on how many files and directories did you test it? It happens for very small projects for me. I tried to switch off my antivirus (AVG), it did not help. I have TortoiseSBN 1.4.4.

Maybe the icons are not the reason. What can delay Total Commander in loading the directory content?

It happens only when I have checkouted project in one of the panels.

[SanskritFritz]

Do you experience the same delay in Explorer?

[ado]

maybe stupid question... is your project on local drive or network drive?
I have not problems with it, but for example if in panel is network drive, it can cause some delay and (and have nothing to do with SVN)

[SirZooro]

I have similar problem with TortoiseCVS 1.8.29 and TC 7.0. I usually work with files located outside of CVS-controlled dirs located on local hard drive.

It looks that TC hangs for 1 or 2 secs when editor executed after pressing F4 key exits.

[fenix_productions]

No problems with TortoiseCVS 1.8.31 and TC 7.01. Please update both apps to newest releases.

[ian.horowitz]

I have the same problem with TC 7.02 and TortoiseSVN 1.4.6 on Windows Vista. When overlay icons are enabled TC almost freezes during going to root directory (but only on d drive and from only some directories ). I can't work with it. I have to disable it. When I disable caching in Tortoise everything is OK. It can be TortoiseSVN bug but explorer doesn't have the problems.

[ghisler(Author)]

That's really strange, because the overlay icons are loaded in a background thread and shouldn't slow down TC's foreground operation at all...

Do you get high CPU usage values in task manager for TC and/or Tortoise?

[Druid]

I have the same problem with TC 7.02 and TortoiseSVN 1.4.6 on Windows Vista.

I second that. I've same problem with Total Commander 7.03 and TortoiseSVN 1.4.8 (Windows Vista Business 32 English) and I've had it before with previous versions. Sometimes Total Commander doesn't show overlays of TSVN icons at all and locks itself after going to root of drive D: for about 5 seconds. Clicking on Total Commander window says it is 'Not responding'. CPU usage is normal - system idle process takes about 80% of CPU time (TSVNCache has 0%, TotalCommander has 0%). What is interesting that it doesn't lock on drive C: or even USB drives.

After computer restart it goes back to normal state until another time.

edit. I just have noticed that also viewing a SVN file using lister (F3) takes about 2-3 seconds.

/Robert

[ghisler(Author)]

I don't have this problem here. Maybe filemon from www.sysinternals.com can tell you what is slowing down TC, maybe a virus scanner or so?

[Druid]

maybe a virus scanner or so?

I've noticed that this problem has appeared once after entering to recent / send to directory (one of them) which contains links to a lot of documents.

Anyway, there is brand new minor version of TortoiseSVN (1.5.0) - maybe it will fix this issue.

[ado]

Anyway, there is brand new minor version of TortoiseSVN (1.5.0) - maybe it will fix this issue.

"The Subversion team is proud to announce the release of Subversion 1.5.0. The first new feature release of Subversion in almost 2 years, 1.5.0 contains a number of new improvements and features."

well... not that minor

ado

[Druid]

well... not that minor

Well, yeah Still it is not 2.0 yet

Anyway it does work well so far