Well, it doesn't block all other processes, but it sure did block a lot of them.
I agree that finding out why the repository is huge seems worthwhile. I think it's been growing lately which means it might eventually get to an unsustainable size. As far as I can tell Microsoft doesn't ship any tools to make repo-size analysis easy. An open-source tool was suggested in one of the comments on my blog.
> I agree that finding out why the repository is huge seems worthwhile. I think it's been growing lately which means it might eventually get to an unsustainable size.
Exactly. It's 1.9 GB on your machine, whereas on a plain home-use computer it's less than 50 MB, i.e 40 times smaller. Something produces all that data there, what is that, and what's that that's being stored?
I agree that finding out why the repository is huge seems worthwhile. I think it's been growing lately which means it might eventually get to an unsustainable size. As far as I can tell Microsoft doesn't ship any tools to make repo-size analysis easy. An open-source tool was suggested in one of the comments on my blog.