Re: Cause of SVN Slow Down: https or per-directory access control?

On 11/16/06, Bradley Wagner <bradley.wagner@hannonhill.com> wrote:
> Hey, I recently switched from a repository over http:// with no per
> directory access control to one using some complicated per directory
> access control and https://. I've noticed that compared to Apache's
> SVN repository, for example, mine is very slow even to browse in SVN
> Repository Explorer in Eclipse using Subclipse. I'm using the native
> libraries on OS X for Subclipse.
>
> Between the switch to secure http (SSL) and per-dir access controls,
> which would degrade the performance most?

Per-directory access control.

> Seems like the per-dir
> access control could be pretty slow especially if it has to derive a
> path and parse the config file every time. Is svnperms supposed to be
> a faster mechanism for doing this?

If you only want to enfore write access, yes.

HTH,

Erik.

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Received on Thu Nov 16 08:40:20 2006