I think you may be forgetting that anoncvs needs to store not the
checked-out versions of the code, but every revision ever checked into that
repository of every file. The last I asked, I was told that a full NetBSD
cvs repository was in the neighborhood of 19 gigs of data. I may be wrong,
but if it stores even most revisions/branches, it would be signifigantly
more than 600MB.

On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 06:54:59AM -0400, John F. Woods wrote:
> > "anoncvs" runs some NetBSD 1.5 version. So there is *no* buffer cache
> > problem on it. UBC and enough memory is what could help it really.
> > Right now the performance is disk bound.
> 
> Just how much memory does anoncvs have?  It looks like /usr/src is somewhere
> in the neighborhood of 600MB(*); assuming anoncvs doesn't have addressing
> limitations, it should be entirely practical(**) to put in enough memory to
> keep /usr/src on a RAM disk.  (Hmm, a CVS repository would probably take
> somewhat more memory.)
> 
> (*) 600MB?  I *hope* I just have some loose object files lying around...
> 
> (**) Assuming you can convince users to pony up a total of something like $200,
> which ought to be a snap.
> 
> Even if it can't hold enough memory for a /usr/src RAM disk, passing the hat
> for enough memory to speed it up is probably not an absurd idea (again,
> assuming that it can actually hold substantially more than it has).

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