Re: [boost] [server] Continuing problems with svn operations

Subject: Re: [boost] [server] Continuing problems with svn operations
From: Vladimir Prus (vladimir_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-01-13 10:03:28

Rene Rivera wrote:

> On 1/13/2011 6:31 AM, Beman Dawes wrote:
>> I'm using svn a lot as part of the run-up to 1.46.0, but am having trouble.
>> svn operations are very slow, and often fail. A typical error message is:
>>
>> Error: REPORT of '/svn/boost/!svn/vcc/default': Could not read chunk size:
>> An existing
>> Error: connection was forcibly closed by the remote host.
>> Error:  (https://svn.boost.org)
>>
>> Can anything be done about svn problems? I know Rene has already done a lot
>> of work trying to improve the situation, but there are still serious
>> performance problems.
> 
> Recently I had to rebuild my own SVN server. Along the way I learned a
> fair amount of "things" about the SVN server setup. But two unfortunate
> items about this are:
> 
> 1. I won't have time to really work on tweaking the server for some
> time. Sorry about that, but my daughter is starting daycare and it's
> taking much of my "free time" away :-)
> 
> 2. I'm now very familiar with the above connection error. It's caused by
> bugs in the WebDAV module that appears only when using it over SSL
> (https). For my own server I had to run a reverse proxy doing the SSL
> (lighttpd -- which has its own problems depending on which version you
> use) connecting to the Apache server running only the WebDAV/SVN on
> HTTP. So the unfortunate part is that there doesn't seem to be any hope
> of the WebDAV stuff ever getting fixed when used with HTTPS. When I get
> back to looking at the server one of my first changes is going to be to
> remove the HTTPS side, and change to non-clear-text authentication to
> both fix the above problem and to relieve a bit more server CPU. But if
> one of the real sys-admins can get to this before I do I would be very
> grateful ;-)

Why do we use HTTP in the first place? svn:// should be less overhead.

- Volodya

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Vladimir Prus
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