On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 04:03:33AM +0100, Leszek Szarlej wrote: > Hi > > In svn book ver. 1.0 there is written: > "Deflate compression places a small burden on the client and server to > compress and decompress network transmissions as a way to minimize the size > of the actual transmission. In cases where network bandwidth is in short > supply, this kind of compression can greatly increase the speed at which > communications between server and client can be sent. In extreme cases, this > minimized network transmission could be the difference between an operation > timing out or completing successfully." > In the same book in version 1.5 there is no word about why/why not. Is it > mean that mod_deflate is not recomended for current versions of svn? I did > tests on svn 1.6.9 and compression rate is about 30-40 percent and checkout > times are ~30% less
I don't know why that paragraph was dropped from the book. But there's an unrelated problem with using mod_deflate together with mod_dav_svn. It can cause memory leaks. See http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2009-08/0274.shtml Stefan
