SID-00884: RcsHistory keep 10 Revisions

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	4.2.0	Perl version:	5.8.8
Category:	CategoryVersionControl	Server OS:	SLES 10.3	Last update:	15 years ago

Hello, I want to keep only the last 10 Revisions of a topic in my TWiki. I tried a script that modifies the ,v files it doesn't work. "rcs -o18 ..." says: revision 18 absent. Where is my mistake? Thanks for your help.

-- DanielPerabo - 2010-07-05

Discussion and Answer

Oh, I do not see an easy way to do that. I think you would need to rebuild the repository revision by revision to get the latest 10 only.

Why would you need that? TWiki can handle as many revisions you like, for example, Sandbox.WebHome on twiki.org has over 4000 revisions. TWiki text content uses very little space, and disk is cheap.

-- PeterThoeny - 2010-07-05

My problem is my TWiki gets sometimes real slow especially by searching something. I hope reducing the numbers of revisions would speed up my TWiki. Or is there another way to speedup TWiki without new hardware?.

-- DanielPerabo - 2010-07-15

Removing revisions won't speed up TWiki. With the current architecture, there is a limit in the number of topics per web. See TWikiScalability.

-- PeterThoeny - 2010-07-15

I've got 51370 topics distributed in 7 Webs ( including Main & TWiki) there should still be potantial

-- DanielPerabo - 2010-07-16

I mean 5137 topics ^^

-- DanielPerabo - 2010-07-16

You should not see a performance impact with so few topic. Seems like a configuration issue or a slow file system?

-- PeterThoeny - 2010-07-16

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