On Dec 10, 2008, at 8:43 PM, Tony Butt wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 16:02 -0500, Bob Archer wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>>
>>
>> I was wondering if there is much of a difference between svn: and
>> http: performance. I have read that svn is faster but is it “a lot”
>> faster or just a bit?
>>
> That depends on how your authentication is done.
> We used an Active Directory server for authentication, and ran
> subversion with mod_auth_krb on a Suse Linux Enterprise Server and
> apache 2.0, and found that svn+ssh:// was much faster than http://
>
> That was because there was no caching of authentication credentials
> between GET's for files, so every file fetched in a checkout (for
> instance) would cause the kerberos credentials to be checked again.
>
> We eventually switched to mod_auth_pam, and used kerberos in PAM to
> authenticate, which performed better, and gave us single sign on. (svn
> +ssh uses PAM too). The svn+ssh:// was still at least 2x faster than
> http://
>
In our testing, we found that svn: was about 2x faster than svn+ssh:
for the way we tend to access our repository.
-steve
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