[p4] Is Sync -f trouble?

[Dave Lewis]

On 10/31/06, Venters, Cheryl <Cheryl_Venters at intuit.com> wrote:
> We're still having terrible problems with P4 performance. When I talked
> to Perforce today, the person I talked to told me we should never be
> running p4 sync -f. All of our automated scripts run the sequence sync
> #none, delete the build directory, sync -f. That has been our policy for
> a clean build. Does anybody have input on this? And, are there p4
> commands that have a greater potential for hanging the server?

In the scenario you describe, I don't think the sync -f will have
any greater impact than a normal sync. It should also be
unnecessary in this situation.

Does your client contain a lot of files, enough to cause a long
compute time before the sync starts transferring files?

What are the symptoms of your poor performance? Are users
having to wait a long time when they do syncs/submits before
perforce responds?

dave