[fossil-users] Scalability limits

2014-02-07 Thread Rich Neswold
Hello, I first want to say what a terrific version control manager Fossil is! I took my first serious look at Fossil last week and have already converted a few of my personal projects away from 'git'. The built-in bug tracker and wiki are genius touches! Thank you, Fossil community, for your

Re: [fossil-users] Scalability limits

2014-02-07 Thread Stephan Beal
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Rich Neswold rich.nesw...@gmail.com wrote: I don't have any question; I just thought I'd document my experiences. Thanks for your feedback! IMO (possibly a minority opinion), Fossil has never aspired to host repos quite as large as those. i remember the pkgsrc

Re: [fossil-users] Scalability limits

2014-02-07 Thread Ron Wilson
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Rich Neswold rich.nesw...@gmail.comwrote: I don't have any question; I just thought I'd document my experiences. Thanks for your feedback! IMO (possibly a minority opinion), Fossil

Re: [fossil-users] Scalability limits

2014-02-07 Thread Gour
On Fri, 7 Feb 2014 18:40:32 +0100 Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: It would be really cool to see someone implement their own SCM based on fossil's core artifact model and their own db back-end, though. What about Monotone? Linus was looking at it, but it was too slow at that time.

Re: [fossil-users] Scalability limits

2014-02-07 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 07:39:37PM +0100, Gour wrote: On Fri, 7 Feb 2014 18:40:32 +0100 Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: It would be really cool to see someone implement their own SCM based on fossil's core artifact model and their own db back-end, though. What about Monotone?

Re: [fossil-users] Scalability limits

2014-02-07 Thread Gour
On Fri, 7 Feb 2014 20:32:56 +0100 Lluís Batlle i Rossell vi...@viric.name wrote: It was a bug of monotone, that slowness. Fixed, for what I remember. Yeah, too bad. Otherwise we wouldn't see git. :-) But monotone works on sqlite, if the deal is sqlite. Right, but I see Monotone's influence

Re: [fossil-users] Scalability limits

2014-02-07 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 05:17:23PM +0100, Stephan Beal wrote: i'd be interested in seeing the output of 'dbstat' on your repo, except that it could take some time for it to finish generating its output (so don't feel obligated to try it). Here's the info for the current fossil core repo:

Re: [fossil-users] Scalability limits

2014-02-07 Thread Stephan Beal
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 6:15 PM, Ron Wilson ronw.m...@gmail.com wrote: I am guessing this is a limitation of SQLite, which is designed to be light. It would be interesting to see how Fossil would perform when plugged in to, for example, PostgreSQL, MariaSQL or other heavy duty SQL server. Of

Re: [fossil-users] Scalability limits

2014-02-07 Thread Rich Neswold
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 10:17 AM, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: i'd be interested in seeing the output of 'dbstat' on your repo, except that it could take some time for it to finish generating its output (so don't feel obligated to try it). Here's the info for the current fossil core

Re: [fossil-users] Scalability limits

2014-02-07 Thread Stephan Beal
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 9:11 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger jo...@britannica.bec.dewrote: On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 05:17:23PM +0100, Stephan Beal wrote: i'd be interested in seeing the output of 'dbstat' on your repo, except that it could take some time for it to finish generating its output (so

Re: [fossil-users] Scalability limits

2014-02-07 Thread Arnel Legaspi
On 2/8/2014 5:19 AM, Stephan Beal wrote: It would be really cool to see someone implement their own SCM based on fossil's core artifact model and their own db back-end, though. It would likely require a complete re-implementation, not just rewriting most of the SQL. Wasn't Veracity

Re: [fossil-users] Scalability limits

2014-02-07 Thread Nico Williams
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 6:15 PM, Ron Wilson ronw.m...@gmail.com wrote: I am guessing this is a limitation of SQLite, which is designed to be light. It would be interesting to see how Fossil would perform when plugged in