With autorevision set to 'on' and curl: Reverence speed for boot drive to USB3 spinning platter 4TB thing:
paul@paul-HiBox:~$ time cp /home/paul/clientDir/seven /media/paul/sg4t/sevenb real 0m1.539s Create a new 501MB file on Svn Server: paul@paul-HiBox:~$ time curl -u paul:myPassword http://192.168.1.178/svn/ svnRepo1/twoB --upload-file /home/paul/clientDir/seven <title>201 Created</title> real 0m49.442s *I ran that a couple more times and it was up there at 50s* Needlessly overwrite 501MB file (file is unchanged) on Svn Server: paul@paul-HiBox:~$ time curl -u paul:myPassword http://192.168.1.178/svn/ svnRepo1/twoB --upload-file /home/paul/clientDir/seven real 0m13.426s Change the compression-level=0 paul@paul-HiBox:~$ sudo nano /media/paul/sg4t/svnParent/ svnRepo1/db/fsfs.conf Create a new 501MB file on Svn Server: paul@paul-HiBox:~$ time curl -u paul:myPassword http://192.168.1.178/svn/ svnRepo1/twoC --upload-file /home/paul/clientDir/seven <title>201 Created</title> real 0m15.312s Yay - a modest speed boost!!! Restart Apache - which I didn't do before: paul@paul-HiBox:~$ systemctl restart apache2 Create a new 501MB file on Svn Server: paul@paul-HiBox:~$ time curl -u paul:myPassword http://192.168.1.178/svn/ svnRepo1/twoD --upload-file /home/paul/clientDir/seven <title>201 Created</title> real 0m14.925s Conclusion: With compression-level=5 (default), there's is a 1:33 cp to curl-PUT ratio. With compression-level=0, there's is a 1:10 cp to curl-PUT ratio. Is there there are other alluring settings, such as... enable-rep-sharing = false enable-dir-deltification = false ... but they didn't yield an improvement. Thanks for all the replies, gang. - Paul