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Re: [TSVN] TSVNCache too resource intensive on large working copies

From: Peter McNab <mcnab_p_at_melbpc.org.au>
Date: 2005-05-27 19:38:53 CEST

Joseph Galbraith wrote:

>
> Dual processor XEON 2.00 GHz, 512 MB Ram,
> SCSI 15000 RPM disk
>
> As I've followed the discussion though, I think
> I've realized several things-- mostly that I should
> have thought more before I posted a "me to."
>
> - It isn't consistantly bad-- it is bursty.
>
> Most of the time it is okay, sometimes explorer is
> unusable and the disk is grinding. Killing TSVNCache
> makes it better.
>
> - I experience periods were everything is very slow, the
> disk grinding, and killing TSVNCache makes it better.
>
> In neither of these cases, is the CPU maxed (either one
> of them.)
>
> I also have been extremely busy this week so I haven't managed
> to upgrade to RC2, which I am doing right now. If I see
> the problem again, I'll throw filemon at it (which seems the
> best bet to determine what is actually happening.)
>
> I'll also keep perf mon running against TSVCache for a bit
> and see if I can turn up anything.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joseph
>
> PS. My working copy (with a build in it) is 611 MB,
> with 23385 files spread across 5121 folders (counting
> the .svn folders too.) It is pretty deep, not terribly
> wide.
>
> I have this and a branch which should be roughly the
> same size.
>
The repository is a significant chunk of data, about four times larger
than my biggest one.
So the processor is pretty good, the disk is fast, there is plenty of
RAM so swap file thrashing is an unlikely contributor.
Looking outside TSVN then the only thing left might be whether the drive
is badly fragmented and not NTFS.
I'm not trying to ignore TSVN as a potential cause, just looking for
factors that might differentiate your conditions from others who don't
experience (or notice) your symptoms.

Last night it took me between 10..15 mins to copy a directory containing
two full WCs and exports of the repositories between two new but slower
IDE drives. After doing that I installed TortoiseSVN and browsed the
larger repository with no noticeable system slowdown evident while it
built the cache. (Win2000)

I think I was running the last nightly 1.2 -r3505.
Peter

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