> Joel Eidsath wrote on Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 09:11:48 -0700: > > I was just handed a large SVN install with thousands of users and > > hundreds of individual repositories. It is experiencing serious > > performance issues. I believe that it mostly boils down to a 14MB > > AuthzSVNAccessFile. > > > > What can I do to speed this up? Is there a database solution to use > > instead of the flatfile? Can I implement caching somehow? I am willing > > to code something up if I have to. > > > > Thanks for any help! Please CC me on any replies. > > > The relevant code is in libsvn_repos/authz.c. Look at the call to > svn_repos_authz_read() in mod_authz_svn.c: the file is read and parsed once > per connection. > > I guess you could cache the parsed svn_authz_t struct in a longer-lived pool, > or > perhaps increase the lifetime of connections (compare the configuration > suggestions in http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.7#serf). > > The impact of this will be, of course, that changes to the authz config file > might > not take effect as soon as they do now. >
Cruise control .Net caches it's config info... however if uses a file watcher to see if the file changes... and if so reparses it. Could svn take this approach. BOb
