title: slow svn checkout in shared folder from virtual machine
body: <p>I am trying to perform a checkout of a folder from SVN into a shared folder that is located in a VMware virtual machine, but the connection to the svn server is extremely slow, and it often times out without finishing. A normal checkout of my svn folder takes about a minute, but now it seems to take over an hour.</p>
  
  <p>The interesting part of this is that it happens only at one level deep into the shared folder structure. For example, the shared folder is <strong>\\myserver\myapp</strong>, and if I try to checkout the contents of a SVN folder called "custom" into <strong>\\myserver\myapp\custom</strong> , the checkout will take over an hour. However, if I checkout the contents of that custom folder from SVN into <strong>\myserver\myapp\   or    \\myserver\myapp\anotherfolder\custom</strong> , the checkout download speed behaves considerably faster (less than a minute).</p>
  
  <p>So, I am wondering if this strange behaviour has something to do with some permission settings in the Active Directory of the server or folder.  </p>
  
  <p><strong>Notes</strong>:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>I am using TortoiseSVN 1.6.15 and Subversion 1.6.16.</li>
  <li>The virtual machine is running MS Window Server 2003 R3 SP2</li>
  <li>My host machine is running XP 2002 SP2</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>This behaviour:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>occurs when performing the checkout from outside of <strong>\\myserver.</strong> </li>
  <li>does not occur inside <strong>\\myserver</strong> with svn checkout directory as <strong>\\myserver\myapp</strong></li>
  <li>occurs even if the virus scanner is set to exclude the <strong>\\myserver\myapp\ folder</strong> and subfolders</li>
  <li>occurs even if the folder from the svn repository is not custom. I also tested with other svn repositories from different servers.</li>
  <li>occurs even using sliksvn libraries.</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p><strong>Edit:</strong></p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>The size of the folder that I am trying to check out is 120 MB, and contains ~2000 files.</li>
  <li>The path that I am checking out is at a thirteen-level deep svn directory.</li>
  <li>A ping to my svn server is &lt;1ms with no packets lost.</li>
  <li>The tortoise transfer rate is 95 percent of the time is 0 Bytes/s.</li>
  </ul>