Re: Weird performance problem

"Han The Man" <hantheman12@hotmail.com> writes:

> I use subversion 0.24 with apache 2.0.47. The server is running on
> Redhat 8.0.
>
> When I use "http://myserver/svn/myrepos" from Internet Explorer,
> Subversion appears to be extremely fast. Listing the files and
> directories is almost instant.
>
> However, using the same url from the Windows XP command line (svn list
> ...), it takes forever (well, it works, but it's useless due to the
> bad performance.) TortoiseSVN over the http protocol is equally slow.
>
> Any idea why? Also, svn import, svn co, etc is slow as hell too. Using
> the svnserve / svn-protocol is much, much faster.

Yes, because your web-browser is doing a GET on the directory -- bam,
the repository gives a single, fast HTML response listing files.

The svn client issues a whole bunch of webdav requests, which is a
much more complex process.. it includes a whole bunch of PROPFIND
requests, among other things. But that's also the reason you can
mount the repository as a DAV share.

Stop using 0.24 -- it's really old. We're up to 0.27 now. It should
be faster.

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Received on Mon Aug 18 17:42:33 2003