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Re: serf and sourceforge.net don't get along (was on users@: Re: 1.7.0-alpha1 feedback)

From: Greg Stein <gstein_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:57:07 -0400

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 09:30, Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name> wrote:
> Stefan Sperling wrote on Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 15:15:53 +0200:
>> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 02:36:11PM +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote:
>> > It would be nice to get an official confirmation about this from SF.net.
>> >
>> > Because if this is the case, I think we should seriously reconsider the
>> > decision of making serf the default for 1.7. We definitely cannot afford
>> > to break Subversion for all sourceforge users in such a fundamental way.
>> > People who can benefit from serf's performance characteristics without
>> > facing such problems can still enable it.
>>
>> For reference, this is the URL I have tested with:
>> https://jcl.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/jcl/trunk/jcl
>> Neon completes the checkout within 2 minutes, but serf is taking
>> forever (27 minutes and counting).
>
> It's also taking 80%-100% CPU and the memory usage grows steadily (a
> couple of dozen MB's in this case).

That definitely implies something wrong on the client. If the server
is slow, then the client should mostly be blocking.

I'll investigate after I finish with this XML parsing thing in
ra_serf. (which may fix the observed memory problem)

Cheers,
-g
Received on 2011-06-21 18:57:41 CEST

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