Slow SVN checkouts

[Clarence Dang]

On Tue, 5 Jul 2005 09:17 pm, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Clarence Dang wrote:
> >I've just started (!) using SVN and it seems to be slower than CVS by an
> > order of magnitude on my 28k connection.  Where is compression
> > configured for a https SVN account?  Anything else I need to configure?
>
> If you're using svn+ssh, it's configured on the ssh client.
>
> If you're using https, it's configured on the Apache httpd server. And I
> think it's currently disabled to conserve CPU power.

So this (https) is really, really slow on my end :(

Can the sysadmins turn the compression on or is the CPU use really that much?

Or else I'd want to apply for a svn+ssh account just for the compression...