Re: [GD-General] Infrastructure for Distributed Development

[speedy <sp...@3d...>]

Hello gamedevlists-general crew,

      my experience with SVN performance - on recent 1.4.3+ versions:

      * linux based svnserve server runs great, except for
      the checkout which is a pure CPU hog. If you have strong CPU
      on the server (unlike I here O:) you should not notice the
      slowness even if multiple users hit it. Log file generation
      should be better with 1.4.x compared to 1.3 and earlier. [Jamie,
      I'm curious which server version are you using and how many
      history revisions are there? :)]
      
      * linux clients have no performance problems even with huge
      (multi GB binary assets, 10k+ folders) repositories
      
      * windows clients have problems with working copy folder count
      - after some number, all the temporary lock files hit the HDD,
      stalling the client process and the whole system. [If anyone
      is interested in helping fix that, I've posted a detailed bug report
      / analysis to the SVN mail-lists, but I haven't had enough spare
      time to fix it yet]

      For the next project I'll reconsider using SVN and intend to
      test a few alternatives, namely - SVK, mercurial and git.
      
      Hope this was helpfull. Cheers! :)
      
Sunday, October 21, 2007, 1:10:24 PM, you wrote:

JF> Chris Raine wrote:
>> One big downside is speed - subversion gets very slow as soon as the
>> repositories grow in the number of files/directories.

JF> I'd like to dispute this claim. Our repository is pretty huge (roughly
JF> 10 years development with a team of up to about 10 people on the code 
JF> side), and speed is just fine for almost all operations. The one slow 
JF> operation is checking out the repository... and log generation when you
JF> have that much history!

JF> Jamie

>> But before spending a lot of personal time and personal effort into this
>> solution, I wanted to ask around if somebody has a more efficient, or
>> simpler solution. Maybe I intend to tackle the problem from a too
>> complex perspective ( especially considering this is a spare-time
>> project ), or maybe there is a open-source/free product out there that
>> already does what we need, and I simply missed it ... Any
>> comments/experience/suggestions?
>> 
>> regards and thanks in advance, 
>> Chris Raine


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