Re: Update on fossil repositories

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 08:46:34PM +0000, bch%methodlogic.net@localhost wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 05:58:57PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I've recently updated the hardware on the machine I am using the for
> > fossil conversion runs to include a SSD. This has dramatically speed up
> > the process and I now expect the fossil repo to be up-to-date with a
> > window of 2-3 hours.
> > 
> > The NetBSD src tree can be found at http://netbsd.sonnenberger.org, a
> > copy to speed up the cloning and help save my bandwidth can be found at
> > http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/repositories/fossil/src.fossil.
> > This file has a size of ~2.4GB.
> > 
> > The pkgsrc tree can be found at http://pkgsrc.sonnenberger.org, the
> > plain repo at
> > http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/repositories/fossil/pkgsrc.fossil.
> > Note that this is a fresh trace and uses a different project id than the
> > earlier copy. This file has a size of ~610MB.
> 
> Hi Joerg.  Has this been constructed w/ delta manifests? Lack of delta
> manifests on the previous version made for extremely expensive rebuilds.

I think the old version already used delta manifests. This is using the
result of rebuild --compress too. Rebuilds are still expensive, mostly
due to the large size. I am considerating doing some profiling to see if
they can be made cheaper, but there are bigger fishes to fry.

Joerg