Re: [boost] SVN performance issues

From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-08-23 15:58:29

Vladimir Prus wrote:
> I have just run this:
> 
> 	svn diff http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/branches/RC_1_34_0/boost/tools/build/v2 http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/trunk/tools/build/v2 > RC_HEAD.diff
> 
> and it took about 13 mins. On another machine (with another network), it took 15 mins.
> I've asked for confirmation on IRC, and two people are at 11 and 13 mins as a write this
> (and still running).
> 
> Is there some network or setup issue with SVN server? Maybe the
> apache connection limit is set too low?

 From observing the CPU usage on the server while this was going on. It 
seems diff is a very expensive SVN operation. The httpd processes doing 
the diffs ran at 100% for most of the time.

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