On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 3:59 PM Sean McBride <s...@rogue-research.com> wrote: > > Our svn repo is about 110 GB for a full checkout. Larger on the server of > course, with all history, weighting about 142 GB. > > There haven't been any performance issues, it's working great. > > But now some users are interested in committing an additional 200 GB of > mostly large binary files. > > I worry about it becoming "too big". At what point does that happen? > Terabytes? Petabytes? 100s of GB?
I've never encountered a problem with "too big," but I have encountered problems with binary file types causing an SVN client or server to hang. I experienced it back in 2012 or 2013 on a very large collection of repos. I tried to check out/clone and the operation would hang about 6 or 8 hours into the operation. Through trial and error we discovered a developer had checked-in object files from an XCode build, and the SVN client or server would hang on the object files. I don't recall if it was all object files, or just a particular one. As an added twist, I think we were using TortoiseSVN on Windows. So it may have been a bad interaction with TortoiseSVN on Windows. Once we manually deleted object files the check-out/clone proceeded. I don't know if that would happen nowadays. Jeff
