Tools for projecting growth of repository storage?

[Eric Johnson <er...@tibco.com>]

Anyone have a suggestion for a tool that projects the growth of 
repository storage.

I've got repos taking over 75% of a disk volume, and I'm curious to 
project out when I'll need new storage.

Obviously, this is approximate, but has anyone got a tool for it?

Eric.

Re: Tools for projecting growth of repository storage?

[Thomas Harold <th...@nybeta.com>]

On 12/2/2013 7:58 PM, Eric Johnson wrote:
> Anyone have a suggestion for a tool that projects the growth of
> repository storage.
>
> I've got repos taking over 75% of a disk volume, and I'm curious to
> project out when I'll need new storage.
>
> Obviously, this is approximate, but has anyone got a tool for it?
>
> Eric.
>

We keep our repositories on a dedicated file system (ext4) and run 
"collectd" on the box to track file system space usage (the "df" plugin).

Combine that with a graphing tool for collectd that can read the RRD 
files (such as the web-based CGP front-end) and we get nice pretty charts.

http://imgur.com/xDZ9BGu

As you can see in Week 27-29, we had some runaway growth which alerted 
me that I needed to take a look at what was being automatically 
committed.  In our case, it was FSVS doing automated commits of a Linux 
box where we should have ignored/excluded some additional directories.

When looking at my quarterly graph (13 weeks), CGP gives me numbers like:

Used (Minimum) 96.9GB Used (Last) 99.2GB - which means I have only seen 
2.3GB of growth over 13 weeks, or about 10GB per year at current rate of 
growth.

We also run a small script each day that checks the file systems and 
sends an alert if any file system is over 75% full.

Re: Tools for projecting growth of repository storage?

[Mark Phippard <ma...@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 7:58 PM, Eric Johnson <er...@tibco.com> wrote:

> Anyone have a suggestion for a tool that projects the growth of repository
> storage.
>
> I've got repos taking over 75% of a disk volume, and I'm curious to
> project out when I'll need new storage.
>
> Obviously, this is approximate, but has anyone got a tool for it?


Subversion Edge has a feature that is sort of like this built-in.
 Basically it captures the amount of disk space used by your repositories
and graphs them over time.  It would be up to you to build projections
based on what it shows you.


-- 
Thanks

Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/