Fast Subversion
Sunday, October 4th, 2009 by Chris
After months of struggling, hard toil, and generally getting pretty annoyed at Unfuddle, I’ve finally found the one and only way to get Subversion to run at a respectable and somewhat useful speed.
In other news, today I’ve installed and configured Subversion and Memcache and properly setup MySQL on the box labelled “Subversion Server” (it doesn’t do just that), which I think is quite an achievement considering my practically non-existent sysadmin skills.
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Are you using subversion for something other than the usual checkpoints every now and then during development? I’ve used subversion in a wide range of situations, local and remote, and rarely found that the _performance_ of subversion was an issue.
General stability and flakiness issues of remote servers, on the other hand, have caused me to curse and move several times. For new projects I’m making a conscious effort to switch to git, though.
Hi – I couldn’t tell if you were being facetious about the fact that svn actually *is* generally slow on large installations, or that you actually resolve the problem.
dave
Hi guys,
Thanks for the comments! This was just a bit of fun as I have recently been frustrated by the few hundred bytes per second my usual off-site Subversion hosting runs at.
Admittedly it is sluggish on larger repositories, but my frustration was more at how slow the server was giving me the data. Putting the server on the machine literally right next to my computer has clearly made it much faster, and its perfectly suitable for my personal and University projects!
Chris