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Re: serf in 1.8

From: <kmradke_at_rockwellcollins.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:43:48 -0600

> From: Philip Martin <philip.martin_at_wandisco.com>
> kmradke_at_rockwellcollins.com writes:
>
> > *one* of my servers currently logs around 10GB per week with neon
> > only access. I'd probably have to change from rotating logs
> > weekly to rotating logs hourly! Disabling logging is not an option.
>
> It depends what sort of access patterns you see. The problem case is a
> checkout/update/export/switch that modifies a large number of files. If
> you are seeing lots of these operations then you may have a problem. On
> the other hand if most of your updates modify only a small number of
> files, even if the working copy itself has a large number of files, then
> the log growth is far less dramatic. Do you know what sort of operations
> your clients are doing? Logging SVN-ACTION may help find out:
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/
> svn.serverconfig.httpd.html#svn.serverconfig.httpd.extra.logging

While not typical, I have seen a single transaction affect >1M files.
(That is not a typo, I really do mean one million...) The average
count would be under 100. Scaling that to a couple thousand
repositories used by a few thousand users still makes me pretty
nervous about upgrading to 1.8 if serf is the only/default option.

Kevin R.
Received on 2012-11-13 22:44:21 CET

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