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Re: large binary data repositories with many files

From: Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel_at_comcast.net>
Date: 2006-04-12 01:10:55 CEST

ListMan wrote:
> hi, we have lots of binary data that we are trying to data manage
> with subversion. as you can see from the example below svn can be
> kind of slow, a commit can take up to 68mins.. are there certain
> binary characteristics of files that lend themselves to efficient
> diff generation? is there a place i can research the algorithm used
> by svn? any ideas how we can speed this up with svn?
>
> raw
> performance repository workarea
> size files(dirs) copy add commit update
> size size files(dirs)
> 2.1G 5331(2061) 6m 4m 68mins
> 1.2G 4.2G 44011(22671)

Well, there are obvious ones: enough RAM on the server so that it doesn't
have to swap when adding the binaries to the database, for example, might be
very helpful.

And unfortunately, the layout of your message was fairly scrambled: can you
try a different format so it doesn't line wrap like this?

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