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Re: [Subclipse-users] JNI vs. SVNKit: Performance reversal

From: Bradley Wagner <bradley.wagner_at_hannonhill.com>
Date: 2007-01-03 22:55:42 CET

Could this possibly explain why the SVNKit method of connecting to
the same server would be so much faster now?

On Jan 3, 2007, at 4:52 PM, Mark Phippard wrote:

> On 1/3/07, Bradley Wagner <bradley.wagner@hannonhill.com> wrote:
> Interestingly, one of my co-workers who is same version of Subclipse
> on Windows XP is *NOT* having these same problems. I should note that
> I'm connecting to SVN over https
>
> On Jan 3, 2007, at 4:26 PM, Bradley Wagner wrote:
>
> > Until yesterday, using the native SVN 1.4.0 libraries on my OS X
> > was noticeably faster when doing checkouts than using the SVNKit
> > interface type. Now, today, all of the sudden subclipse came to a
> > halt when using JNI and is very fast when using SVNKit.
> >
> > Has anyone seen anything like this before?
> >
> > This shift seemed to coincide too with a strange occurrence where
> > all of the sudden SSH-ing (not with SVN or anything) into that same
> > box where SVN is hosted has a long delay before bringing the
> > password prompt (15-20 seconds). I realize this is all very random
> > and vague but I thought I'd throw it out there.
>
> Is it possible your server is running into the sometimes common
> problem that it is hanging up while generating a random number?
> This can happen if the server does not have enough entropy and it
> would potentially be an inconsistent problem.
>
> This comes up a lot with people using svn:// as it generates a
> random number for something. However, I know that anything
> cryptographic would also need to do this.
>
> Just a guess.
>
> Thanks
>
> Mark Phippard
> http://markphip.blogspot.com/

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