The relevant code is in libsvn_repos/authz.c. Look at the call to svn_repos_authz_read() in mod_authz_svn.c: the file is read and parsed once per connection.
I guess you could cache the parsed svn_authz_t struct in a longer-lived pool, or perhaps increase the lifetime of connections (compare the configuration suggestions in http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.7#serf). The impact of this will be, of course, that changes to the authz config file might not take effect as soon as they do now. Joel Eidsath wrote on Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 09:11:48 -0700: > I was just handed a large SVN install with thousands of users and > hundreds of individual repositories. It is experiencing serious > performance issues. I believe that it mostly boils down to a 14MB > AuthzSVNAccessFile. > > What can I do to speed this up? Is there a database solution to use > instead of the flatfile? Can I implement caching somehow? I am willing > to code something up if I have to. > > Thanks for any help! Please CC me on any replies. > > Joel Eidsath
