From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13532 invoked by alias); 8 Jan 2010 13:34:26 -0000 Received: (qmail 13523 invoked by uid 22791); 8 Jan 2010 13:34:25 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:34:21 +0000 Received: from int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.11]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o08DXcEO024670 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 8 Jan 2010 08:33:38 -0500 Received: from hase.home (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o08DXZL0001595; Fri, 8 Jan 2010 08:33:37 -0500 From: Andreas Schwab To: Joel Brobecker Cc: Phil Muldoon , gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: time to be serious about dropping CVS References: <20100101080137.GP2788@adacore.com> <4B472BDC.1030301@redhat.com> <20100108131258.GO4623@adacore.com> X-Yow: Do you guys know we just passed thru a BLACK HOLE in space? Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:34:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20100108131258.GO4623@adacore.com> (Joel Brobecker's message of "Fri, 8 Jan 2010 17:12:58 +0400") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2010-01/txt/msg00068.txt.bz2 Joel Brobecker writes: > My observations on SVN is that it is a huge I/O hog. I don't know > what it's doing, and how it encodes it's meta data, but you definitely > feel it when your home directory is not on a local hard drive. SVN spreads out its meta data in every tracked directory (like CVS), and when you do an update it has to update files in every such directory. Most modern VCS keep the meta data in a single directory. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@redhat.com GPG Key fingerprint = D4E8 DBE3 3813 BB5D FA84 5EC7 45C6 250E 6F00 984E "And now for something completely different."