Re: How to find the ceiling...

On 2004-05-21 10:03+0200 Roland Schwingel wrote:

> Hi...
>
> After sizing my svn repos recently I am wondering how big it can get?
> Is there any limitation in the size of live repos?
> I am speaking about limitations in BDB/subversion/whatever component
> that limits the size of the repos.
>
> At present it is ~1GB and has now a growrate of about 100Meg a month.
> Are there any limitations?

I don't know the exact limitation of the database size, but as an
example, Gustavo Niemeyer from Conectiva Linux writes:

  Since then, 5 complete Conectiva Linux distributions were committed
  into the repository, and every single update in the distribution is
  done using Subversion. We've already surpassed 50000 revisions, in a
  30GB repository.

    (From http://subversion.tigris.org/propaganda.html )

> Eg. size of the strings file? Do I need to worry at eg. a size of
> >2GB?

If your file system doesn't support files bigger than 2 Gb, you need to
change your fs to one that does, for example ext3 or ReiserFS. I
experimented on a ext2 file system to see if the database would crash
into the 2 Gb limit, and you bet it did. db errors all over the place.

Regards,
Øyvind A. Holm
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Received on Fri May 21 12:26:37 2004