[p4] Very large repository

[Robert Cowham]

Shouldn't be too hard to test with your server hardware. Just try the load
of running gzip on similar binaries and see what happens.

What OS are you running?

What's the I/O load on the server?

Have you read the old conference papers "Return from the Swamp" and similar?
Worth using O/S utilities to measure current performance and find out
bottleneck.

Robert 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com 
> [mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of 
> Robert McKenna
> Sent: 13 September 2006 20:41
> To: perforce-user at perforce.com
> Subject: [p4] Very large repository
> 
> Hi
> 
> I've taken over administration of a very large server, which 
> is having performance problems at times. The problems are 
> largely caused by multi-gigabyte submits and syncs of 
> binaries. We will have to change our processes to get rid of 
> those operations however a change of that scale carries too 
> much risk at the moment. In the meantime turning off binary 
> compression of the file types involved may help, at the 
> expense of an even larger repository. This would involve 
> approximately 10,000 files.
> 
>  
> 
> Has anyone any experience with the change in performance 
> resulting from turning off compression of binaries?