I wonder if Peter can do a test comparing the ssh and webdav
interfaces? That might tell us how much of an improvement we are
talking about. I'm not sure me testing from home will have much effect.
Tim
On Jan 5, 2009, at 2:46 AM, Mark Taylor wrote:
> Tim,
>
> On Wed, 19 Nov 2008, Tim Jenness wrote:
>
>> Peter can check it out now from the usual place (but starjava
>> instead of starlink) since he has a JAC account but Mark will need
>> to use the webdav interface
>
> I've now read enough of the Subversion book to find out that WebDAV
> access is expected to be "noticeably slower" than the svnserve+SSH
> (or just svnserve) route. I have indeed noticed that operations
> requiring
> network access are significantly slower than they used to be when
> using the CVS repository at RAL, though I've got no idea how much of
> this is to do with the change in location and how much to do with the
> change in protocol (obviously, those operations which require no
> network connection, of which there are more in svn than cvs, are
> faster).
>
> This is at the level of a slight annoyance when doing commits,
> status -u, diffs to older versions etc. If there's no objection,
> would it be easy to give me a JAC account with SSH access just for
> the purpose of getting faster subversion running faster?
> Alternatively, again looking
> at the Subversion book (p193-195 of 2nd edition) would it be better
> to run a non-ssh svnserve server than the (presumably Apache) WebDAV
> access, since the data is not sensitive and so does not need to be
> encrypted for network transport (snvserve sounds less problematic,
> though if you have already set up Apache you've probably done the
> hard bit).
>
> This is by no means a demand or a high priority request, so feel
> free to say "no" for whatever reason if you want.
>
> Happy new year to all our readers!
>
> Mark
>
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