[cvsnt] Can History-File cause Performance issues?
Chuck Kirschman
Chuck.Kirschman at Nosp_am.bentley.com
Sat Sep 2 22:03:31 BST 2006
Sounds reasonable; I'm up at 2.5.3 which is pretty recent. Is there a
link to what is required and how it works?
Thanks
chuck
Bo Berglund wrote:
> On Fri, 01 Sep 2006 12:57:16 -0400, Chuck Kirschman
> <Chuck.Kirschman at Nosp_am.bentley.com> wrote:
>
>
>>I think this is one of those things that is only seen by larger users,
>>but we definitely found it to be a problem. We regularly got up over
>>100 MB history files, and some repositories cleared 500 MB and were
>>heading for 1 GB. As near as I can tell, CVS still does not have a
>>solution to this problem. What we ended up doing was writing a simple
>>script to keep roughly the last 3 months of data; usually 30-50 MB.
>>This had substantial performance benefits when running a "cvs history"
>>command, but smaller effects on other operations.
>>
>>Rather than lose information, we stored the pieces we clipped out of the
>>history files in other files with a time stamp in the name. So now a
>>"cvs history" will only show data for the past 3 months. However, when
>>we need to go back further, we can use a combination of greps to extract
>>the information into a single history file that we can then query.
>>
>>I do not believe there is any way for the history file in one repository
>>to influence any other repository.
>>
>
>
> If you have a recent CVSNT server, then why not enable auditing and
> switch off the history file stuff altogether?
> With a proper database you get so much better possibilities to search
> for stuff and create all kinds of reports.
>
>
> HTH
>
> /Bo
> (Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)
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