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Re: AuthzSVNAccessFile size issues

From: Joel Eidsath <jeidsath_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:50:03 -0700

That option definitely looks interesting. From my reading, we could
use it to get apache to ignore all access restrictions except for the
SVN access file that I specify. Unfortunately my current performance
woes mostly come from the issues involved with processing the SVN
access file itself.

Joel Eidsath

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 2:39 PM, <kmradke_at_rockwellcollins.com> wrote:
>> strace seems to indicate I/O issues as the bottleneck. The file is
>> loaded from NFS without caching.
>>
>> The per-repository access file seems like my best bet for an immediate
>> solution. It is example 4 in this config:
>>
>> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/subversion/
>> mod_authz_svn/INSTALL
>>
>> For a longer term solution, I am looking at contributing some code to
>> mod_authz_svn to 1. allow rule caching, or 2. provide some sort of db
>> support.
>
> You may also want to try:
>
> SVNPathAuthz short_circuit
>
> I'll let you google the potential problems with using that value.  It
> can result in significant performance gains if you work within
> the restrictions.
>
> Kevin R.
Received on 2012-03-22 22:50:55 CET

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