svn currently overloaded

[Allan Sandfeld Jensen]

On Wednesday 04 May 2005 14:51, David Faure wrote:
> As planned, everyone is checking out from SVN on the first day, so the
> SVN server is completely overloaded and slow. Don't blame the svn
> implementation itself for being slow, it's really the load on the server
> that is the problem, due to the number of concurrent accesses.
>
> If you haven't started checking out things yet, well, please consider
> postponing it a little bit; meanwhile you can still work with the readonly
> CVS and prepare patches. Things are so bad right now that we sysadmins
> can't fix things up where needed without waiting ages between each command
> :/
>
> Thanks for your understanding and patience.

Wouldn't it overload the machine less if you allowed HTTP access? I don't see 
any reason to encrypt an open source project.

`Allan