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Re: More on possible client authentication

From: Garrett Rooney <rooneg_at_electricjellyfish.net>
Date: 2006-06-19 16:27:48 CEST

On 6/19/06, gerhard.hannemann@printsoft.com
<gerhard.hannemann@printsoft.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi all (again)
>
> This is addition to an earlier email regarding what appears to be long
> authentication times for SVN clients.
>
> I built another debian sarge system at home, and have absolutely not issues with
> it. Is there a possibility that by running Subversion on a User Mode Linux
> system could cause connection issues with clients?
>
> Is there a detailed list of supporting services and runtime libraries that, if
> missing, could caase delays in authentication users between the subversion
> client and server?
>
> Thanks one again - I hope to hear/read from somebody soon

One possibility would be that it's taking a long time to generate
random bytes. If you machine doesn't have a suitable source of
entrypy, /dev/random could be quite slow. You might try recompiling
APR and telling it to use /dev/urandom (via the --with-devrandom flag
to configure).

-garrett

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