Hi! Thank you for the bug report!
It's a known problem and we're going to fix it in one of the future versions of the VisualSVN Server. On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 11:58 PM, Simon Hodgson <simon.hodg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm seeing a very similar problem. Running VisualSVN Server on Windows > 2008 Server, with CruiseControl.net. CruiseControl does regular checks > of the log for all of the projects it's auto building, but this this > makes lsass.exe consume about 80% of the CPU. > > I've tried, as suggested here > http://www.petri.co.il/forums/showthread.php?p=142083 > Adding "SVNPathAuthz off" into httpd.conf, but this does appear to > have had a significant improvement in performance. > > Has anyone else got any ideas? > > Thanks > > > Simon > > On Feb 18, 5:50 pm, Darren McDaniel <gizm...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I've been notified from my Domain Administrator that the SVN server is >> hammering the ADS servers with authentication requests.. (excess of 10/sec >> at times) Apparently, the Windows Authentication module authenticates >> against the ADS server for EVERY PATH/FILE combination it encounters... so >> if for example the svn tree contained 1000 unique paths, with 100 files in >> each path... and a user downloads the entire tree... there are 100,000 >> authentication requests that are fired to the ADS server in our domain. >> >> This is also the same when a user runs a LOG command against a path.. Every >> folder/subfolder/file is authenticated against and when compared to the same >> tree being aceessed via svn:// with subversion authentication vs: Visual >> Svn's http"// with windows authentication the times are extraordinarily >> different.. ex. I run a log command against the Root Folder using the >> svn:// path with tortoisesvn and receive results back within 60 seconds.... >> when I run the same log command against the Root Folder using http:// and >> VisualSVN Server it takes >5 minutes before results are returned.. and the >> Domain Admin tells me that the svn server is Hammering the ADS server with >> authentication requests... >> >> My question is this... Can the Visual SVN server's windows authentication >> module cache the authentication data internally for at least a couple >> minutes instead of making a new auth request for each and every folder in >> the tree??? > -- Regards, Olga Dolidze VisualSVN Support
