NFS Tuning for Subversion

If you are using NFS to access your Subversion server and/or workareas, you may be able to improve performance by modifying your NFS configuration.

Netapp tuning in a Subversion env

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Subversion Server

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Subversion Workareas

For optimum performance Subversion workareas should be located on fast local disk. If you must have workareas on the network, the right set of NFS options can make a significant difference to performance.

There is no single recipe that applies to all server and network configurations, but customers have reported success using the following mount options:

noatime, nocto, nodiratime, rsize=8192, wsize=8192