RE: performance enhancement by working copy svn server

> I agree wholeheartedly with what John wrote in his reply. Scanning a
> disk can be done a lot faster than we're currently doing; centralized
> metadata helps, but there are obviously other tricks, too -- just as an
> example, look at how quickly Google Picasa can scan your whole disk for
> images!

I challenge the idea that scanning the whole tree could possibly ever be "fast." Yes, if you do it once and repeat it, then you're benefitting from the cache on the 2nd run - For my users that makes the difference between 10 minutes and 30 seconds. But they're only going to svn up (or whatever) ... once, twice, three times a day ... And the system is doing actual work in parallel. So they never benefit from the cache. Every time they scan the tree, it takes 10 minutes.

I considered seriously, writing a cron script to tar all the .svn dirs into /dev/null, and stat the whole working copy of every user, ever 5 minutes. Just to keep that info in cache. But I finally decided that was stupid enough to abandon it.

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Received on 2008-04-15 15:16:47 CEST