On my Gentoo Linux at work, I’ve trying out git in the subversion locally, while committing to an SVN server. I did have issues getting the inital clone done; the repository is around 1 GB svn checkout size and contains ~89’000 revisions.
`git svn clone …` ran up to rev 30k, then stopped and needed to be re-started, continuing at the last imported revision but it would only process some thousand further revs. When it was finally done, it contained only one of the top-level directories of `trunk/`.

I `rm -rf`’ed all and started over. Now I see an endless loop at around rev 20-30k. Searching on google revealed some posts on the git mailinglist; for speed, it seems to be better to continue checking out the svn tree with