Re: svnserve 1.8 + slow network + large svn:mergeinfo property

2014-03-18 Thread Philip Martin 
Matthews, David david.matth...@metoffice.gov.uk writes:

 Does this make sense to anyone?
 Why should the size of the svn:mergeinfo property affect ls -R commands?
 I haven't managed to measure the network traffic yet but I assume that, for
 some reason, svnserve is transmitting a lot of unnecessary information?

Yes.  1.8 introduced optional inherited properties and the server is not
properly detecting clients that don't ask for those properties.  Running
svn ls -R queries a lot of paths and server keeps sending the unwanted
inherited properties.

Fixed on trunk by r1578853.

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Philip Martin | Subversion Committer
WANdisco // *Non-Stop Data*

RE: svnserve 1.8 + slow network + large svn:mergeinfo property

2014-03-18 Thread Matthews, David 
 -Original Message-
 From: Philip Martin [mailto:philip.mar...@wandisco.com] 
 Sent: 18 March 2014 13:02
 To: Matthews, David
 Cc: 'users@subversion.apache.org'
 Subject: Re: svnserve 1.8 + slow network + large 
 svn:mergeinfo property
 
 Matthews, David david.matth...@metoffice.gov.uk writes:
 
  Does this make sense to anyone?
  Why should the size of the svn:mergeinfo property affect 
 ls -R commands?
  I haven't managed to measure the network traffic yet but I 
 assume that, for
  some reason, svnserve is transmitting a lot of unnecessary 
 information?
 
 Yes.  1.8 introduced optional inherited properties and the 
 server is not
 properly detecting clients that don't ask for those 
 properties.  Running
 svn ls -R queries a lot of paths and server keeps sending 
 the unwanted
 inherited properties.
 
 Fixed on trunk by r1578853.

Philip

Many thanks for looking into this so quickly.

I guess we'll need to wait for 1.8.9?
(we normally use the wandisco RPMs)
Unfortunately this is causing us a lot of pain.

David Matthews