Re: subversion performance, one file checkout, no text-base

On Jan 11, 2006, at 09:03, Vianney Lecroart wrote:

> Nobody know these answers?

I think nobody responded because the answers to your second and third
questions are easy for you to find yourself, and the answer to the
first question may be somewhat subjective...

> Should I post to the dev list?

If you have specific suggestions for improving Subversion's source
code, yes. If not, no.

>> I read mailing list archives and saw that the only messages about
>> performance were in 2002. I did some tests and it seems that
>> Subversion is faster.
>> The test server is a GNU/Linux Pentium 3 1Ghz, 512MB RAM on
>> 100MBPS Local network (only 12% of the network is used during the
>> test), could you confirm that the bottleneck on the server is the
>> CPU frequency? or can it be the RAM? I don't really know if I can
>> have better performance with a better CPU or with more RAM?

For what it's worth, the limiting factor on our server appears to be
disk speed. But our server is not only serving our Subversion
repository but also ten developers' working copies for a dozen
projects, along with mail, web and SMB services. The step that
actually seems to take the most time updating a working copy. Whether
in our post-commit hook or manually on the command line, this is what
always seems to thrash the disk and ruin the disk cache.

>> Second question, I saw on the archive that you told about the
>> possibility to remove the text-base file on the working copy (at
>> least for binary files). Is it implemented? If not, is it planned?
>> When?

It is not implemented. The feature request to have working copies
without the text-base is here:

http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=525

This was supposed to be a 2005 Google Summer of Code project; I have
heard no status update as to whether anything got done.

The enhancement request to have the text-base compressed is here:

http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=908

A patch for Subversion 0.31 was supplied in October 2003, but nothing
appears to have happened since then.

>> Third question, I saw in the FAQ that it's not possible to check
>> out only one file. Is it planned to implement it? When?

That is correct. It is not currently possible. There is an issue open
for this:

http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=823

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Received on Wed Jan 11 12:47:06 2006