That option definitely looks interesting. From my reading, we could use it to get apache to ignore all access restrictions except for the SVN access file that I specify. Unfortunately my current performance woes mostly come from the issues involved with processing the SVN access file itself.
Joel Eidsath On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 2:39 PM, <kmra...@rockwellcollins.com> wrote: >> 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.