Philipp Gühring wrote on Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 12:31:36 +0100: > Hi, > > I am having a problem with Subversion+LDAP: > I have a repository with approximately a million files. > The subversion client sends every file a HTTP request to the Apache server.
What kind of requests? GETs or PUTs? Are you using ra_serf? Try switching to ra_neon. (See 'svn --version'.) > Now my suggestion for Subversion client is to add functionality be able to > automatically retry (after a few seconds and only a few times) a request > in case it received a 500 HTTP error. > It would be good if it is possible to set options for how often to retry, > and/or how often to wait. > > For the subversion server / apache (I don´t know exactly which module does > what in this code-path), I think it is perhaps an idea to map the LDAP > "Administrative Limit exceeded" to a temporary error, which can be better > detected by a client and be retried by the client. > Subversion does not directly interface with LDAP. Either httpd handles everything itself, or it exposes to us a non-LDAP-specific authnz API. > Best regards, > Philipp Gühring > HTH. I'm not an httpd expert, though, so others here (or perhaps on users@httpd) may have better ideas.
