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Re: Problem with large commits

From: Tim T. <tim.timmerman_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2007-04-23 08:47:07 CEST

On 4/23/07, Blair Zajac <blair@orcaware.com> wrote:
>
> On Apr 22, 2007, at 11:23 PM, Tim T. wrote:
>
> > On 4/23/07, Blair Zajac <blair@orcaware.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Apr 22, 2007, at 10:29 PM, Tim T. wrote:
> >>
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > Committing large files to Subversion seems to take forever.
> >> >
> >> > I handle the infrastructure for a project which needs to archive
> >> > some 10-20 XML
> >> > files of about 6-7 Megabytes each. These datafiles are an essential
> >> > part of the
> >> > delivery and must be archived.
> >> >
> >> > The last update to these datafiles took on the order of two hours,
> >> > even though I tried
> >> > to be smart and deleted them first, checking the files in as though
> >> > they were new,
> >> > and thus elliminating any line-by-line diffs.
> >>
> >> I would recommend keeping those files as related to their
> >> predecessors. For files that large, after a while, you'll appreciate
> >> the svndiff algorithm in the repository for space savings.
> >>
> >> >
> >> > Checking the project server ( A Sun Blade 1500, with 1 Gig of
> >> > memory), I noticed
> >> > that the post-commit script was eating 100 % CPU and 100% memory
> >> > during that
> >> > time. I'm using the standard perlscript by the way, no local mods.
> >>
> >> Well, that's the issue, not Subversion itself.
> >>
> >> What is you post-commit script running?
> >
> > Fairly standard, I think;
> > svnlook changed to get the changed files, then svn look diff, to
> > determine what's changed.
>
> [cc'ing users]
>
> Hi Tim,
>
> Please don't take discussions off the mailing list.
Mea culpa.. It's early here, and I hadn't had my full dose of caffeine
for the day..

>
> Doing the svnlook and diff by hands sounds like the hard way to do
> it. I would use mailer.py to get the email and diffs sent out.
>
> >
> > I really want that diff, to minimize the chance of loosing work, but
> > I'd assume that this is the causing the problem. I guess I could turn
> > that off before the next
> > major file commit..
>
> If you really want to minimize the chances of loosing work, the way
> to do that is to ensure that your post-commit does either a full back
> of the entire repository or you do incrementals of the last commit
> onto some other partition, or better yet, other system. Sending
> emails out of the diffs is another way.
>
> I would recommend using mailer.py to do any of this.

Thanks,

  I'll take a look at this script, hopefully later today.

  I'm already running full backups on a daily basis (to two different
systems, I've
  learned to be paranoid); If I request that my colleagues keep their
working copies
  around for at least 24 hours after a commit, I should be be safe enough.

thanks for your time,
  TimT.
>
> Regards,
> Blair
>
>
>

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