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Disk/Memory Consumption of SVN

From: Kirby C. Bohling <kbohling_at_birddog.com>
Date: 2002-02-01 19:46:33 CET

SubVersionists,

I am currently interested in replacing CVS. I have evaluated several
different source repositories. SVN is very interesting, and looks like
a candidate for my replacement (I will wait for it to be finished of
course).

So in the interest of tinkering with it, I took my current CVS
repository and checked out about 9 months worth of install tags (think
230 revisions). The source code is roughly 10-12MB. I did an export
from CVS, checked into SVN then exported out successive versions of CVS
did a diff, applied the patch and SVN checked in the result. Once I got
this up and running then I could play with it to my hearts content with
a real amount of data in it.

I have two concerns to point out. I have searched the archives for
similar things, but I have yet to find them. One is that the same
repository in CVS takes about 130MB of disk space, and has 2 years worth
of revisions. The SVN was at 1.3GB when I completely ran the filesystem
out of space and had 8-9 months and was missing several of the huge
files from early in the CVS tree that had been removed. The second is
while check in's take a lot of memory, check outs take more. I have
roughly 300MB of VM on my linux machine, and I literally couldn't check
out trees that I had used for a year in CVS. The directory had 1000
5-10K files that I was using as data for a regression test. I can give
you as much or as little information as you want if this is a new issue.
  I probably can't give you the real data (NDA's are like that *grin*).

I think SVN has a serious shot at being a CVS killer, and addressing
these two issues will go a long way with me to getting me to switch when
SVN is ready for prime time. I was unsure if I should present them here
or put them in as bugs/features. My apologies if I choose poorly.

        Thanks,
                Kirby

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