Thanks for the report from the field...
Yah, we are aware of the memory issues and are working on them (some
have been fixed very recently; you didn't say what version of
Subversion you were using, so don't know if your test included the
improved code).
If you're feeling ambitious, you could make your test data and stats
available in some concrete form and annotate
http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=602
accordingly (possibly changing its summary, or creating a new issue,
as you think appropriate). But no pressure, only get as involved as
you have time for. :-) We'll fix the memory problems either way.
Thanks,
-Karl
"Kirby C. Bohling" <kbohling@birddog.com> writes:
> 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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