Google Research

Still All On One Server: Perforce at Scale

  • Dan Bloch
2011 Perforce User Conference

Abstract

Google runs the busiest single Perforce server on the planet, and one of the largest repositories in any source control system. From that high-water mark this paper looks at server performance and other issues of scale, with digressions into where we are, how we got here, and how we continue to stay one step ahead of our users.

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