Re: Subversion worries

On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 04:14:54PM +0200, Rafael Garcia-Suarez said:
> svn consumes bandwidth, yes. But more importantely the algorithms
> currently used by mod_dav_svn (or whatever answers to the update
> process) are not scalable when lots of files and directories are
> involved. You could end up with very huge httpd processes, hence a
> significant server slowdown.

According to a man who knows (i.e my boss, a occasional developer) the
old versions of Neon (less than 0.26) were doing individual queries per
file rather than doing streaming property fetches (I paraphrase). 
Upgrading to 0.27 (0.28 is out this Sunday) sorts this out.

Also, for some reason, mod_deflate has a negative effect.

I'm just parroting (badoom-bam) back what he's muttered to me and am in 
know way advocating or defending Subversion. Although, to be fair, I've 
liked it a lot for the smaller projects I've worked on.

Simon