Re: [boost] SVN slow again?

Subject: Re: [boost] SVN slow again?
From: John Maddock (boost.regex_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-03-04 11:57:01

>>>> It sounds like you're trying to make a whole new checkout every time
>>>> when your checkout fails.
>>>>
>>>> Do you realize you can just do svn update and it will continue where it
>>>> stopped?
>>>
>>> Yes, I'm trying to do an update, I don't get more than half a lib at a
>>> time
>>
>> That's about where I'm at, it's almost unusable.  My checkout is on an 
>> NFS
>> mount, so that probably makes it even slower.  By "timeouts", do you mean
>> the following error?
>>
>> svn: REPORT of '/svn/boost/!svn/vcc/default': Could not read response 
>> body:
>> Secure connection truncated (https://svn.boost.org)
>
> Without looking at the logs for the particular errors... This is most 
> likely due to the know bug in HTTPS+WebDav. It's more prevalent the busier 
> the web server is. And since we opened the docs to the bots again, and 
> there's now a wordpress install that's being used it's showing up more.
>
> I'm with Volodya on this.. We should try and move to using the SVN 
> protocol directly to make things much faster for everyone. Baring that, we 
> should move regular HTTP+WebDav ASAP.

Can we have multiple protocols enabled in the short term?

As things stand, the chances of me being able to merge anything to release, 
is basically zero.

Sorry, John.