Great variance in times of a checkout/update.

Hi there.

We are experiencing a great variance in the time it takes to run a
svn checkout/update on a local repository. The following is a list of
the times in seconds for 20 tests:

  33.752 17.996 11.997 3.998 0.993 2.053 0.942 17.998 21.997 11.997
  14.997 2.998 0.996 0.997 0.997 1.997 0.998 0.997 0.997 0.996

As you can see, the standard deviation is 9.2. I'm trying to
determine what could be the factors that cause some of these tests to
take soo long to complete.

While performing the tests I monitored the load of the server. It
never grew beyond 0.2 (indeed, it seemed to have little correlation
with the times).

I also monitored the value in /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail
(I'm using Linux 2.6.11) and the value remained constant during the
entire run. I was guessing this issues could have something to do
with running out of entropy but this doesn't seem to be the case. I
had read about this at

   http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2005-02/0619.shtml .

Sadly the archive seems to be broken so I can't get to the earlier
messages in the Archive.

I'm using svn, version 1.1.4 (r13838) in a Debian GNU/Linux machine.
Our repository is in revision 2899; du reports that it is using 62M.
It lives in a JFS filesystem. We use the default Subversion backend
(based in BDB) and access the repository though Apache (mod_dav_svn).

What would you recommend to determine possible causes for these
ocassional slowdowns?

This is strongly affecting us because some of our svn clients (callers
to libsvn_client (though we ran the tests using the svn command-line
client)) are hanging for long amounts of time.

Thanks!

Alejo.
http://azul.freaks-unidos.net/

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