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Re: Reference to non-existent node

From: Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 May 2018 22:20:30 -0400

On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 2:36 PM Davor Josipovic <davorj_at_live.com> wrote:

> > Now that is interesting. 40k doesn't seem to be such a large amount of
data for modern computers. Very slow and fragmented hard drive? Or perhaps
there's something else going on that is manifesting this way?

> The HDD is indeed on the slowside, and together with low memory...

> But I think this also show how I/O intensive SVN is. On the client side,
for each committed file, one copy is placed in .svn folder, and an other
copy in a temporary folder (which is deleted after file transfer in v1.9).
So for each file committed, a double copy is made client-side. This
temporary copy is really necessary?

I think it shows how I/O intensive using 40,000 small files is. Especially
if they are in the same directory, many filesystems get increasingly
unhappy as they try to manage that many files in one directory.
Received on 2018-05-23 04:20:48 CEST

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