Re: [boost] SVN performance issues

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-09-04 12:15:55

Doug Gregor wrote:

> On Sep 4, 2007, at 9:14 AM, Vladimir Prus wrote:
>> For comparison, I've run diff of KDevelop between KDE 3.4 and KDE 3.5.
>> It took 13 mins and the resulting diff was 11M in size. The size of
>> (archived) source is 9M.
>>
>> In comparison, the size of Boost.Build is 1.4M (including huge
>> generated docs, svn size is smaller), and the diff is 96K.
> 
> I misread your "svn diff" line... I thought you were diff'ing all of
> RC_1_34_0 against the trunk, for which 13 minutes didn't seem so
> horrible. But you're only diffing the build system...
> 
>> Therefore,
>> I'd suspect that if my commands takes more that 30 seconds, it's
>> already
>> a misconfiguration somewhere. Are you sure it's not connection limit?
>> I remember that diff needs a 2 or 3 connections to server at the
>> same time.
> 
> We've tweaked some things that helped performance on our end. Please
> try again to see how things are for you now.

I get 9 mins now -- still rather high.

- Volodya