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Scott Markwell
Asked: 2009-10-31 14:09:06 +0800 CST

What are your tricks for optimizing your Subversion configuration?

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For a Linux or Windows system, what tricks do you do to optimize your Subversion server?

The following are my current tricks for a Linux system serving over Apache with HTTPS and backed by Active Directory using LDAP authentication.

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  1. I can't say much about the performance difference between BDB and FSFS, but I can definitely say that FSFS is far more stable. I'd suggest using it over BDB simply to preserve your sanity. When we had a largish repos running on BDB, we had to run recovery on it at least once a week, often several times. It was irritating. Now that we use FSFS, it's been rock solid.

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  2. "svnadmin pack" is a neglected documentation command, but ran it often may be helpful especially if your commits are small.

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  3. I measured significant performance improvements when using svnserve instead of mod_dav_svn and Apache.

    I performed some measurements in order to analyse repository performance in a project I'm working in, and the result was to setup an svnserve server in addition to the previously used Apache server. See http://www.ohrner.net/software/tipps_en.php, Section "Subversion Performance" for reference and measurement results.

    I realise that using svnserve is not always an option, but often it is, at least if used in addition to WebDAV / DeltaV access, and if it is, it may be rewarding.

    Gunter Ohrner

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