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[tony AT smee.org]

> Quoting Tony Smith <tony AT smee.org>:
>> All,
>>
>> I'm doing some cleaning up on our Perforce server. There are a lot of
>> client
>>
>> workspaces that haven't been used in months/years. I'm about to nuke
>> any/all
>>
>> that haven't been used in the last 3 months on the grounds that if you
>> haven't used that workspace in 3 months, you probably won't miss it :-)
>>
>> This will help to keep response times snappy for the active users.
>>
>> If you get hit by this and it hurts too much, let me know and I'll
>> reunite
>> you
>> with your beloved workspace.
>>
>> Tony
>
> Is this something we should be doing on a regular basis?

It's a pretty good idea in general, so yes I'll run it fairly regularly.

For those that are interested, the db.have table was about 246MB and the
box has 384MB of RAM. That kind of ratio makes for an inefficient buffer
cache. Removing the older clients and rebuilding the db files dropped
db.have to 140MB which is much nicer.

In May I'll be doing a big upgrade to this box so it's only got to last us
till then.

> Also, Eric Womack
> (ewomack) is coming back soon, but he can always recreate his workspaces.
> ;)

Absolutely. I haven't deleted any user accounts, just workspaces. And I'm
as guilty as everyone else here - I think I had 2 old ones lying around
and you (yes you sandalle ;-) had about 4!

Tony