Re: cvs pserver uses ALOT of memory

[Jon Bendtsen]

Den 3. mar 2004, kl. 11:33, skrev Mark D. Baushke:

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> Jon Bendtsen <jbendtsen@laerdal.dk> writes:
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> > Den 2. mar 2004, kl. 8:28, skrev Mark D. Baushke:
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> > > Jon Bendtsen <jbendtsen@laerdal.dk> writes:

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> > > cvs is probably not the correct tool to use for your binary data due 
> > > to
> > > the way it stores deltas on a line boundary basis. You might do 
> > > better
> > > with subversion which uses an Xdelta method to (re)store changes much
> > > more efficiently.
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> > i know, but it's only very resently that it got to version 1.0
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> Indeed, but it does look like it is a very solid version 1.0...

sounds good.


> For CVS, a possible workaround might be to change filenames for each
> version of the 8.6MB file and have 'make' or something else point at 
> the
> latest version of it. This means that any given individual ,v file of
> this type would only be around 9MB in the repository even though you
> would hae a large number of them. You could 'cvs rm' the versions that
> were no longer useful if that was determined to be needful. I would not
> call this an 'ideal' solution, I merely offer it as a possible
> workaround for your current situation.

thank you, but it is a build, so the file is a .exe file, which starts 
our app, so
i dont think renaming it is an option, but thanks for suggesting this.



JonB