Slow svn performance for svn:// style links

uld · 2014-11-25 18:33:55

I have a large collection of scripts out my control. One of the things they do, is call svn with links in form "svn://...".

The problem is, that calling:

 svn info "svn://..."

stops everything for 2 minutes and then starts authentication with ssh.

Calling directly:

 svn info "svn+ssh://.."

takes less then a second.

What could be the problem? I don't see the same problem in other centos systems so it must be something with the newer subversion.

Does anyone has any ideas what's happening (or not happening)?

Spider.007 · 2014-11-25 19:01:21

Use strace to find out what svn is doing or waiting for

uld · 2014-11-26 07:37:42

I check strace, noticed, that it was timing out on polls on the ip of the svn repo. That seemed strange.
In the end I found that adding this:

#/etc/hosts
127.0.0.1   <myhostname>

fixed it.. no clue why.

Arch Linux