> -----Original Message-----
> From: Victor Sudakov [mailto:sudakov_at_sibptus.tomsk.ru]
> Sent: 20 January 2011 08:18
> Subject: Re: Betr.: Re: "svnadmin load" a huge file
>
> Colleagues,
>
> I have finally completed a test cvs2svn conversion on an amd64 system.
> The peak memory requirement of svnadmin during the conversion was
> 9796M SIZE, 1880M RES. The resulting SVN repo size is 8.5G on disk.
>
> "svnadmin dump --deltas" of this new SVN repo required 6692M SIZE,
> 2161M RES of memory at its peak. Such memory requirements make this
> repo completely unusable on i386 systems.
>
> The original CVS repo is 59M on disk with 17859 files (including those
> in the Attic) and total 23911 revisions (in SVN terms). All files are
> strictly text.
>
> Something seems to be very suboptimal either about SVN itself or about
> the cvs2svn utility. I am especially surprised by the 8.5G size of the
> resulting SVN repository (though the result of "svnadmin dump
> --deltas"
> is 44M).
>
> > - Copy your CVS repository (say /myreypository to /myrepositoryconv)
> > - In the copy move the ,v files into several subdirectories
> (using the
> > operating system, not using CVS commands.)
> > - Convert the directories one at a time and load them into svn.
> > - Once loaded into svn you can move everything back into one folder
> > (using svn commands) if desired.
>
> Even if I do this, after moving everything back I will not be able to
> do "svnadmin dump" on an i386 system, perhaps unless I write some
> script which will iterate and keep track of dumped revision numbers.
>
Did you also notice the --incremental option? Is that what you mean by
'keeping track of revision numbers'?
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.ref.svnadmin.c.dump.html
This allows you to dump the repo in sections (by specifying a revision
range)
You do not mention what verison of svn you are using but newer versions
allow the repository to be packed, would this help your storage issues?
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.reposadmin.maint.html#svn.rep
osadmin.maint.diskspace.fsfspacking
~ mark c
Received on 2011-01-20 11:14:39 CET