TSVNCashe.exe process takes 40-50% of CPU time

[EvgeniySH]

Sometime TSVNCashe.exe process starts to take 40-50% of CPU time, in spite of no SVN process are running, no SVN actions are performed and even all the Explore windows are closed. It will take this CPU usage until the system is restarted.
What can be the reason?

[Mahesh]

On Command prompt, type in
> perfmon

Selec the particular process and see if that result you saw 40-50% is consistent.

Sometimes I get different result.

--Mahesh

[Karplusan]

I've had a similar issue, except it doesn't continue to run until reboot, it usually finishes at some point.

This also just happened to me a few moments ago and as soon as I was done unzipping a large directory, it stopped using the CPU. Is it possible that writting to the same drive activated it? Or was TSVN looking for potential things being unzipped to cashe?

My question is: What does TSVNCashe.exe DO? Following that, what is it supposed to do?

[MarkG]

Is this ever likely to be fixed? It's become really annoying since I installed the latest Tortoise SVN; I scroll around an Explorer window, Explorer locks up and TSVNCache is eating up all the CPU time on one CPU. All I can do is run Task Manager and kill it.

Alternatively, is there some way to disable the damn thing? I'd rather have a working machine without the SVN icons than a non-working machine.

[MarkG]

OK, deleting the TSVNCache.exe executable seems to work... .

[andyl]

TSVNCache shouldn't be locking you up UNLESS it's contending with another process for access to files.

For example, if you have an on-access virus scanner that isn't set to ignore .svn directories, that scanner is probably holding exclusive locks to files longer than expected.

[Glen]

From the TortoiseSVN settings dialog, pick the "Icon Overlays" node under "Look and Feel" and add the following to the "Exclude Paths" box:

A:\*
C:\*
D:\*
E:\*
(repeat for F-Y)
Z:\*

Then, in the "Include paths" box, add only the root folders where you check out your working copies, e.g.:

C:\MySourceRoot\*
C:\MyOtherCode\*
etc.

Includes have precedence over excludes, so you will still get icons for your checkout folders, but the lockups and cpu usage problem will stop.

Apparently there is a bug in TSVNCache, because it will continue to scan the root of the C:\ drive all day long, even if you have no source folders included on C:\ (all of mine are on E:\). FileMon from sysinternals will verify this.

[andyl]

[kazoo]