> From: Philip Martin <philip.mar...@wandisco.com> > kmra...@rockwellcollins.com writes: > > > *one* of my servers currently logs around 10GB per week with neon > > only access. I'd probably have to change from rotating logs > > weekly to rotating logs hourly! Disabling logging is not an option. > > It depends what sort of access patterns you see. The problem case is a > checkout/update/export/switch that modifies a large number of files. If > you are seeing lots of these operations then you may have a problem. On > the other hand if most of your updates modify only a small number of > files, even if the working copy itself has a large number of files, then > the log growth is far less dramatic. Do you know what sort of operations > your clients are doing? Logging SVN-ACTION may help find out: > http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/ > svn.serverconfig.httpd.html#svn.serverconfig.httpd.extra.logging
While not typical, I have seen a single transaction affect >1M files. (That is not a typo, I really do mean one million...) The average count would be under 100. Scaling that to a couple thousand repositories used by a few thousand users still makes me pretty nervous about upgrading to 1.8 if serf is the only/default option. Kevin R.
