[cvsnt] Re: Vss2cvs.pl preformance

[keith d. zimmerman]

Bo Berglund wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 22:41:17 +0100, Björn Carlsson
> <bc_remove_ at passagen.se> wrote:
> 
> 
>>I switched machine runing Vss2cvs.pl from a 350 MHz to an AMD 2400+ and 
>>that improved preformance by about 25 to 35 times. :o)
>>
>>The slow machine has been buisy since 19th of Dec, and today I 
>>calculated the remaining time to be at least 70 more days.
>>
>>But now it will be finished in a few days.
> 
> 
> You're kidding! Are you running the convert script and it will run for
> a number of months? What is it you are converting, the full source of
> Windows with all the build versions or similar? Or is VSS as slow as
> that? (Never used VSS myself).
> Incredible....
> 

I speak from past experience.... Ours ran for three-plus weeks on a dual 
1 gig machine when we converted our source two years ago...  We have 
around 500,000 lines of code, and were converting two years of history.

keith d. zimmerman