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Recent Rubyforge ViewVC performance has sucked and it's bugged me. Today I finally found some time to look at. The problem? ViewVC was serving static assets like stylesheets and images through the handler.py code. Not ideal. I created a new section in the Apache virtual host config and changed the viewvc.conf docroot line.

Apache Virtual Host

Alias /docroot /u/apps/viewvc/templates/docroot
<Directory /u/apps/viewvc/templates/docroot>
  Order allow,deny
  Allow from all
</Directory>

viewvc.conf

docroot = /docroot

I also changed over to an OpenBSD SMP kernel to take advantage of the dual procs in the server. I can now say the performance is acceptable, though I would still like it to be faster.

On a different note, I'm aware of a problem with the repository rsync jobs resulting in Rubyforge ViewVC to be out of sync. I'm working on this problem and will post the fix once I find it.