[p4] Very big Perforce file : db.have

[Prakash Ranade]

Hello Perforce Folks,

Speaking on the "db.have" file growth issue. 

Can we have a perforce command or argument in "p4 sync", where perforce will
not store the "the revision record" synced to the client in the "db.have"?
Let's say "p4 sync -a" to avoid tracking the "have-list" of the client.

This could be very helpful in controlling the growth of the "db.have".
Example, build system churns the build and store the change/label
information, but never interested to store the "the revision record" of each
files synced to the build client.

Regards,
 
Prakash Ranade

-----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 2:04 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_perftune.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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