Thomas Harold wrote on Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 10:31:43 -0400: > On 6/16/2011 7:05 PM, Bruno Antunes wrote: > > > >Do you know any faster way to load the dump file or to filter out > >some projects/revisions so I can speed up the process? > > > > Are you CPU-bound? Or are you limited by disk speed? If you're limited > by disk access times, make sure that the source file that you're loading > from is on a different disk then the destination repository. Even if you > toss the 45GB dump file onto a USB2 external disk, you'll see a speed > increase. > > And if you have a choice of file systems for the repository to be stored > on, make sure that it's something which can deal with a few hundred > thousand tiny files. On Linux, I'd suggest going with ext4 over ext3. > While db/revs in a FSFS repository can have its revisions packed to > reduce the file count, the db/revprops folder still consists of 1 tiny > file for every revision in the project in a FSFS repository.
revprops/ is sharded. And in 1.7 (including the recent 1.7.0-alpha1) it is packed, too. >