>________________________________
> From: Greg Stein <gst...@gmail.com>
>To: Joe Schaefer <joe_schae...@yahoo.com> 
>Cc: "dev@subversion.apache.org" <dev@subversion.apache.org> 
>Sent: Wednesday, January 4, 2012 7:54 PM
>Subject: Re: eliminating sequential bottlenecks for huge commit and merge ops
> 
>
>
>On Jan 4, 2012 7:20 PM, "Joe Schaefer" <joe_schae...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>...
>> They're using the ASF CMS to manage the www.openoffice.org website, which is 
>> full
>> of 10 years worth of accumulated legacy spanning 50 or so different natural 
>> languages.
>> The CMS is "too slow" during commits to template files or such which change
>> the generated html content of virtually every file on the site.
>Gotcha.
>>
>> There are 2 ways I could mitigate this issue with them if subversion isn't 
>> interested
>> in working on this use case:
>Not sure I'd quite characterize it that way, but more that it is kind of 
>expected and we'd have a hard time using threads to fix it. It is entirely 
>possible that there are *other* solutions besides threads to help with this 
>problem.
>>
>> 1) convert the templating system to use SSI, which would eliminate most of 
>> the
>> sledgehammer type commits.
>>
>>
>> 2) deploy the CMS on an SSD backed system.
>>
>>
>> FWIW (2) is scheduled to happen in the not too distant future anyway,
>I'm gonna guess you'll have this done faster than our 1.8 release (some time 
>H1 this year).


Yes.

>> and I personally
>> don't want to encourage the use of SSI with the CMS even for oddball 
>> situations
>> like this one.
>I think you really should switch to SSI. For a site this size, it is murder on 
>*any* version control system.


I've raised the suggestion with them.  We'll see where it leads.

Reply via email to