Subversion(r): An empirical performance case study from a collaborative perspective on integrated circuits and software development

Due to the ongoing increase in integrated circuit (IC) and software project complexity, configuration management has acquired a primary significance. Apache´s Subversion(r), one of the most prominent configuration management open-source tools, often exhibits a performance deficit when it handles an immense amount of managed data. In this paper, we present a performance study conducted on a typical industrial platform. We identify the large quantity of files and directories as being the pivotal performance bottleneck of Subversion(r)-as the number of files and directories increases, performance deteriorates further. We analyze the impact of the reformed meta-data structure in release 1.7 on the efficiency and contrast it to the previous revision 1.6. We also examine how the performance is affected by the hardware configuration and suggest measures for improvement that facilitate higher efficiency.