Sean: 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? > WANdisco supports customers with Subversion repositories in the TiB with millions of revisions. As others have mentioned, the repository size matters only when it is time to back it up. Large backups can be managed with different techniques with different costs (only some of which have been mentioned so far). What tends to be more important on a day to day basis is the size of the checkout: TCP is bandwidth limited by latency so the larger the working copy at any given latency the longer it takes to check out. And the larger the latency, well... The number of files/directories in a revision can be an issue with certain operations as can the amount of history of changes for a single file (e.g. "svn blame" can get slow...). And the chatty nature of WEBDAV means that latency compounds the time required. Using "svnserve" only helps so in some circumstances since it is difficult to have it cache as much as Apache (and not at all for multi-user support) so it scales differently for different operations. I've read some excellent suggestions about using artifact management systems for build artifacts - definitely. All that said, I think it wise to keep repository size bounded to what you (your company?) can reasonably support. Cheers. Doug -- *DOUGLAS B ROBINSON* SENIOR PRODUCT MANAGER T +1 925 396 1125 *E* doug.robin...@wandisco.com -- <http://www.wandisco.com> THIS MESSAGE AND ANY ATTACHMENTS ARE CONFIDENTIAL, PROPRIETARY AND MAY BE PRIVILEGED If this message was misdirected, WANdisco, Inc. and its subsidiaries, ("WANdisco") does not waive any confidentiality or privilege. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify us immediately and destroy the message without disclosing its contents to anyone. Any distribution, use or copying of this email or the information it contains by other than an intended recipient is unauthorized. The views and opinions expressed in this email message are the author's own and may not reflect the views and opinions of WANdisco, unless the author is authorized by WANdisco to express such views or opinions on its behalf. All email sent to or from this address is subject to electronic storage and review by WANdisco. Although WANdisco operates anti-virus programs, it does not accept responsibility for any damage whatsoever caused by viruses being passed.
