[p4] Very big Perforce file : db.have

[Todd Short (tshort)]

Ours isn't very big, but we whack client's that haven't been used for
over a year to clean it up a bit. Those with clients unused for 6 months
are requested to clean them up.

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-Todd Short
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com 
> [mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of 
> David Ferguson
> Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 5:04 PM
> To: jgrills at junctionpoint.com; Andres Fuentes; 
> perforce-user at perforce.com
> Subject: Re: [p4] Very big Perforce file : db.have
> 
> Ours was over 55G before we did some repository splitting and 
> were able to
> reduce it to 30G (on one server, the other is around 20G).  
> We rebuild the DB
> approximately every 2 months and usually regain about 10-15%...
> 
> -daf
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com
> [mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Grills
> Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 9:04 AM
> To: 'Andres Fuentes'; perforce-user at perforce.com
> Subject: Re: [p4] Very big Perforce file : db.have
> 
> 
> I've worked in environments where db.have was well over 20gb. 
>  It's size is a
> dependent upon the number of files that all the clients have 
> sync'd from
> perforce - with a big project and a lot of developers, you 
> can get there
> fast.
> 
> You can potentially shrink the db files by checkpointing and 
> restoring.
> Information on that process is here:
> http://www.perforce.com/perforce/doc.061/manuals/p4sag/07_perf
> tune.html#1055
> 420.  Apparently you don't have to do this as often in newer 
> versions of
> perforce (2005.1 and above) - see #68043 in the p4d release 
> notes for more
> information.
> 
> j
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com
> [mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of 
> Andres Fuentes
> Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 9:37 AM
> To: perforce-user at perforce.com
> Subject: [p4] Very big Perforce file : db.have
> Importance: High
> 
> 	Hello all,
> 
> recently I've changed our license file in the perforceroot 
> folder, for that I
> revised the rest of files and someones are very big...
> Could be dangerous for our Perforce system that any db.* 
> files has more than
> 2Gb size? 
> I know that this is critical on NT, but could be dangerous on 
> Linux to?
> Exists any way to repare it?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> 
> A.F.
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