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My Performance test (SVN and CVS)

From: Ed Hillmann <edhillmann_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 2005-06-10 00:47:45 CEST

Damn webmail interfaces. :)

Anyways, I did but the results in the last one.
They're probably not legible....

Action CVS SVN
Check out small file set 1 m 17.32 s 26.96 s
Check out large file set 7 m 16.92 s 5m 35.01 s
Tag small file set 1m 29.30 s 0.88 s
Tag large file set 18 m 52.45 s 0.86 s
Update small file set 44.46 s 4.91 s
Update large file set 8 m 53.39 s 38.62 s
Create branch (small set) 1 m 27.99 s 0.80 s
Create branch (large set) 21 m 2.93 s 0.69 s

I've yet to play around with checking in a Large file,
something which CVS fails for us. According to the
SVN doco, it's not supposed to be a problem (just
potentially long). But I've got to check it anyways.

I just thought it was impressive how quickly the
branching/tagging approach used by SVN speeds up the
process. This is probably one of the noticable
differences between CVS and SVN styles of management.
But when you look at those kinds of differences, I can
understand why the approach was taken.

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I've been tasked to look at any performance benefits
of using Subversion over CVS, and I thought this was
too cool to keep to myself.

This is not an exhaustive test, but I wanted to
compare common version control activities. We
currently have a CVS fileserver which hosts our source
files. I used cvs2svn to convert it to SVN, creating
a new SVN Repository on the same box as the CVS
repository. I've using svnserve as the process
hosting requests (it's all within the firewall), and
the machine issuing the command is on a different
machine than the repositories.

For the record, I'm comparing CVS 1.10.8 and SVN 1.2.
I've got a small fileset (512 files, 2 M) and a large
fileset (6,421 files, 128 M) which are largely
comprised of text files with the odd graphics file
thrown in.

Action CVS SVN
Check out small file set 1 m 17.32 s 26.96 s
Check out large file set 7 m 16.92 s 5m 35.01 s
Tag small file set 1m 29.30 s 0.88 s
Tag large file set 18 m 52.45 s 0.86 s
Update small file set 44.46 s 4.91 s
Update large file set 8 m 53.39 s 38.62 s
Create a branch of the small file set 1 m 27.99 s 0.80
s
Create a branch of the large file set 21 m 2.93 s 0.69
s

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