[svn.haxx.se] · SVN Dev · SVN Users · SVN Org · TSVN Dev · TSVN Users · Subclipse Dev · Subclipse Users · this month's index

Re: SVN + LDAP

From: Andy Levy <andy.levy_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:33:26 -0400

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 15:28, Modha Khammammettu
<MKhammammettu_at_calcas.com> wrote:
>
> This gets me concerned is there a problem with Windows and SVN?
> Is there a recommended OS for best performance?

SVN runs fine on on Windows. Even in a VM.

Windows is not the most performant OS for disk I/O, nor is NTFS the
most performant filesystem, period. But it runs just fine for plenty
of people.

> From: Stephen Connolly [mailto:stephen.alan.connolly_at_gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 12:12 PM
> To: Jeremy Whitlock
> Cc: Modha Khammammettu; users_at_subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Re: SVN + LDAP
>
>
>
> 2009/3/18 Jeremy Whitlock <jcscoobyrs_at_gmail.com>
>>
>> > I heard using LDAP authentication slows down SVN Server, is it the case.
>>
>> Well, there is some extra overhead of course so slow downs should be a
>> given.  I mean, there is the network communication from the Subversion
>> server to the directory server, there is the binding to the directory
>> server and then there is the query required to authenticate the user.
>
> That is why I went for the saslauthd route as it will cache the
> authentication so that if you're commmitting all day you don't get the
> overhead.
>
>>
>> It is unavoidable but in most cases, it's better than tolerable.
>>
>> > If there are no issues with SVN + LDAP can you please point me to
>> > documentation on best method of making this happen.
>> > I googled and then got a ton of different links each with different
>> > methods.
>>
>> Doesn't get much easier than this:
>>
>> http://blogs.open.collab.net/svn/2009/03/subversion-with-apache-and-ldap-updated.html
>
> Or there's my blog on svn + saslauthd + active directory (running svn on
> centos)
>
> http://javaadventure.blogspot.com/2008/11/howto-centos-5-apache-22-subversion-15.html
>
>>
>> > I have SVN on windows server.
>>
>> Sorry to hear that.  With this being the case, I'm sure you're
>> connecting to Active Directory.  Make sure to read the part about
>> using a Global Catalog.
>
> Sorry to hear that also ;-)
>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Take care,
>>
>> Jeremy Whitlock
>> http://www.thoughtspark.org
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> http://subversion.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=1065&dsMessageId=1349588
>>
>> To unsubscribe from this discussion, e-mail:
>> [users-unsubscribe_at_subversion.tigris.org].
>
>

------------------------------------------------------
http://subversion.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=1065&dsMessageId=1350262

To unsubscribe from this discussion, e-mail: [users-unsubscribe_at_subversion.tigris.org].
Received on 2009-03-18 20:34:15 CET

This is an archived mail posted to the Subversion Users mailing list.

This site is subject to the Apache Privacy Policy and the Apache Public Forum Archive Policy.