On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 02:52, Mark Phippard <markp...@gmail.com> wrote: > You just need to specify --bdb-txn-nosync when running svnadmin > create. although it is possible that svnadmin load also accepts this > option. This should make the load times about the same. > > There is something you are supposed to change after loading the > dumpfile to turn this back on. >
Yup, by creating the repository with --bdb-txn-nosync the time to load the dump was reduced to about 9 hours (less than double the time of FSFS). db/DB_CONFIG is the place to go to get the safer behavior back once the load has completed: set_flags DB_TXN_NOSYNC // Ben