Re: [Axiom-developer] RE: [M#73697383] Re: Disk-quota Request

[Ben Collins-Sussman]

On 10/5/06, root <address@hidden> wrote:

> any system that considers 20M to be 'huge' needs a rethink.

The term "monstrously huge" is being used in a relative sense, i.e. 80
megs of .zip files is big compared to a typical tree of source code.

There's no limit to the size of files that can be uploaded/downloaded.
It's HTTP.  The whole system was designed to be 'streamy' with large
files.

CVS, on the other hand, requires that the server hold the entire
tree-being-checked-out in RAM.  If you do a checkout of 400 megs of
source, your server better have 400 megs of RAM to hold it.  If 5
people are checking out that source tree at once, your server better
have 2 gigs.  Not so scalable.