Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2012 15:28:04 +0000 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs deprecated Message-ID: <20121227152804.3fab55e8@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <CAGH67wRWPNNmioGG8svQeAwHUCbBNreJzjdhyNymbfgGqnbVVg@mail.gmail.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1212271016340.35118@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <CAGH67wSTjF891kLK0vd8TW9VRjhUD4SzMx4W%2BdOWAD4iB3r0Ew@mail.gmail.com> <CADLo83_U_kx7AQbTXUwYTXiw=qQ_ZJmmot8rC5Vx8mp8uOaEQw@mail.gmail.com> <CAGH67wRWPNNmioGG8svQeAwHUCbBNreJzjdhyNymbfgGqnbVVg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 27 Dec 2012 02:33:00 -0800 Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 2:30 AM, Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> 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).
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