[SVN-1432] mod_deflate buffers responses

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: all
• Fix Version/s: unscheduled
• Component/s: mod_dav_svn
• Labels: scalability

Environment

other

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Ben Collins-Sussman
• Created: 21/Jul/03 21:34
• Updated: 27/Oct/18 16:38
• Resolved: 05/Oct/05 16:48

Description

mod_deflate buffers entire responses, which blocks any streamy
responses coming from mod_dav_svn.

This is technically an Apache bug, but placing into svn's issuetracker
as a constant reminder to kick the apache team into fixing it.  It
creates huge scalability problems for Subversion.

(In svn 0.26 and later, neon does *not* accept-gzip encodings by
default.  That's our temporary workaround.)