From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 27 15:28:19 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1424B76B for ; Thu, 27 Dec 2012 15:28:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwmaillists@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-bk0-f48.google.com (mail-bk0-f48.google.com [209.85.214.48]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8638B8FC08 for ; Thu, 27 Dec 2012 15:28:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-bk0-f48.google.com with SMTP id jc3so4360252bkc.35 for ; Thu, 27 Dec 2012 07:28:11 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references :x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=0IzIlcnLaaRmI7fvSj5Ipdg3nTJXOe2GI99N29L/YcE=; b=Br+QAQFkDcKuGYTeHrk8aTjD/1toGKhvfSI01UdRCjXwsWk4mf3JJR92by01k6dX7e 1Hfy2DH7vmAOSmBicfPMs0SQSsmwWJz/O3WifNU8MTDtFRIwZOX7u2Ag9Z3HK4xw9djO 5t/YYbfKOZ/thNPB09DjM/oEeuVK3DLm4xVD++FBmTCDbLUvZCbzysix3RFtgbNTxu29 LLHdBtoiDFBRAgc9hP74AhUJU/mb+LgfKaEeT/AbCg06HcIXglCZUg2b881M3y91WLZi M0MuhdOJkhoJXviV2sVoKzl6wwpigPB3MDXS24yajQPp1mW/I0PiaV3HLAab9ZLC8hsL OD3w== X-Received: by 10.204.128.197 with SMTP id l5mr15227517bks.59.1356622091083; Thu, 27 Dec 2012 07:28:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com (87-194-105-247.bethere.co.uk. [87.194.105.247]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id l17sm20901799bkw.12.2012.12.27.07.28.07 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 27 Dec 2012 07:28:09 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2012 15:28:04 +0000 From: RW To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs deprecated Message-ID: <20121227152804.3fab55e8@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.0 (GTK+ 2.24.6; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.3) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2012 15:28:19 -0000 On Thu, 27 Dec 2012 02:33:00 -0800 Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 2:30 AM, Chris Rees wrote: > > > > I recall a cluster administrator advising use of svn protocol > > rather than http. Something to do with overheads. > > Yes, you're right. http opens a connection per-file, which is > horrendous with server load and is very slow as HTTP isn't optimized > for this purpose Presumably that's a limitation of the library or subversion because it's not true of HTTP per se. Portsnap, for example, uses persistent connections with pipelining. > (and the current defacto HTTP library used with svn > isn't the most performant thing in the world).