> strace seems to indicate I/O issues as the bottleneck. The file is > loaded from NFS without caching. > > The per-repository access file seems like my best bet for an immediate > solution. It is example 4 in this config: > > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/subversion/ > mod_authz_svn/INSTALL > > For a longer term solution, I am looking at contributing some code to > mod_authz_svn to 1. allow rule caching, or 2. provide some sort of db > support.
You may also want to try: SVNPathAuthz short_circuit I'll let you google the potential problems with using that value. It can result in significant performance gains if you work within the restrictions. Kevin R.