[p4] Slow Downs - More RAM?

[Dave Lewis]

In my experience slowdowns like you describe are usually the
result of somebody running an operation that just absorbs
a lot of cpu.  like:

p4 files //.../specialdir/....java

Have you set maxresults and its ilk?

dave

On 1/8/07, Sudheer R. Palagiri <sudheerreddy.p at sonata-software.com> wrote:
> Hi Terry,
>
> In my organization we are using perforce for the last 2years.
>
> RAM: 4 GB
> OS: Red Hat Linux
> Kernel version: 2.4
> Processors: 4 processors
> Perforce users: 150
>
> We use perforce from three different part of world.
>
> I agree it is slow @ times, Bandwidth size could also have been the
> reason. Could you try increasing that & give a try.
>
> Thanks & Regards,
> Sudheer Reddy
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com
> [mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of Terry Metler
> Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 8:08 AM
> To: perforce-user at perforce.com
> Subject: [p4] Slow Downs - More RAM?
>
> I need opinions about hardware and how "big" I need to go...
>
>
>
> We've been running Perforce now for about 7 months.  Up to November
> everything was running very smoothly but since then we have many slow
> downs a day.  There are no indications on the system except that I have
> noticed just before everything goes back to normal that the cores all
> peg to 100% utilization for a few seconds.  This has slowly gotten worse
> to now it is happening two or three times a day.
>
>
>
> After talking with Perforce support they indicated that it looks like a
> case that the server is running out of resources.  There are points when
> there are over 700 concurrent transactions.  Support mentioned that it
> looks like a large process is backing everything up and eventually it
> does finish and everything else runs really fast that was backed up
> behind that one process.
>
>
>
> I've rebuilt the databases, defragged the drives, removed the audit file
> and moved the database files to a separate drive to try and get some
> additional performance.  None of these have made a significant
> improvement.
>
>
>
> Currently...
>
> Users: 160
>
> Files: 460 000 (not including all revisions)
>
> Server
>
>             CPU: 2 x 3.0Ghz Xeon
>
>             RAM: 4GB
>
>             OS: Windows Server 2003 Standard
>
>
>
> New server I'm looking at...
>
> CPU: 2 x 2.6Ghz Opteron
>
> RAM: 32GB (Can be upgraded to 64GB)
>
> OS: Windows Server 2003 Enterprise
>
>
>
> I am hoping to hear from some people that have been using Perforce for a
> lot longer than we have.  I don't want to purchase a bigger server and
> not get the performance I'm being told I would get with "a lot more" RAM
> (the current one is almost maxed out physically and is maxed with the
> Standard OS).  All recommendations are more than welcomed as I want to
> have a better feeling that it is the hardware that is causing the slow
> downs before shelling out for a new server.
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance for your recommendations and feedback!!
>
>
>
>
>
> Terry
>
>
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