Re: svn log slowness

On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 09:56:49PM +0200, Johan Corveleyn wrote:
> In any case, it made me think that packing revprop shards (as was
> discussed here some time ago) could make a big difference for svn log
> with FSFS. Switching to BDB might also help a lot, but unfortunately
> that's also not really possible for us currently, because the
> available Solaris binaries of SVN don't include support for BDB (we've
> checked CollabNet and sunfreeware). And we don't really have the
> experience nor time to build it from source.
>
> Is there any specific reason why the CollabNet binary for Solaris
> doesn't include BDB support? Is it just because FSFS is the default,
> and the easiest for maintenance?

I don't think you want to use a BDB repository mounted over NFS.
FSFS has been designed for that, but BDB is supposed to have problems
with it.

See http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.reposadmin.planning.html#svn.reposadmin.basics.backends

Stefan
Received on 2009-05-09 23:18:20 CEST