Re: Svn update slow for a small repository

[kv chin <a....@yahoo.com>]

On Mar 14, 2006, at 23:18, Cabanero, Christian wrote:

> We're trying to use subversion 1.3.0 for a pretty small repository  
> and are having intermittent performance problems with it.

> The slowness is most often observed when performing updates and  
> diffs using both the command line and subclipse.
>
> What I've seen is that when the slowness does occur the Linux box  
> doesn't have a lot of CPU utilization, in fact it's often near zero  
> but I do see a lot of iowait, sometimes as much as 98%.

I have the exact same problem too.  I used svnserve -d -r ... to
serve my repository. The repository is not huge, it is about 50MB.
75% of the time when I browse the repository through svn protocol, 
the performance is pretty good. But other times, it could take  
between 1 to 5 minutes for it to respond. I used FSFS for the
repository. I also noticed the exact same thing that the server
is not doing anything at all (CPU utilization is close to 0) during
the slowdown.
The hosted project has many directories, but each directory only 
has at most 30 files.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Kart


			
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