When I do "svn blame" on some file (36972 lines), svnserve takes more than 800 MB on the server (and is killed due to lack of memory). So, it seems that svnserve is inefficient in terms of memory usage (that's at least 22 KB per line!).
svnserve, version 1.8.8 (r1568071) compiled Aug 20 2015, 12:51:30 on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)