Chances are that you either did not allocate enough space for your depot, or something in your depot tree is taking lots of space. If either of these is the case, the minor savings you will get from deleting metadata won't save your for long.

I would first look file files that have been submitted binary and see how often new versions are generated. New revisions of binary files are stored in their entirety, not in any differential format. Particularly beware if they are a type like PDF or DOC that is generally compressible, but their perforce type is ubinary. Types like GIF, JPEG and PNG are generally not helped by Perforce compression because they are already pretty well compressed.

You can save space in your metadata, particularly if you have lots of creations and deletions of metadata objects, by checkpointing, backing up, deleting the db.* files and restoring the metadata from the checkpoint. You will need to make sure your users have stopped access while this occurs or new revisions may be lost.

Steve

At 09:58 AM 4/24/2001 -0700, saran.chinnaraj at escalate.com wrote: