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Bug 349691

Summary:	Exponentially growing number of files in workspace metadata
Product:	[RT] Virgo	Reporter:	Daniël van 't Ooster <dvooster>
Component:	tooling	Assignee:	Project Inbox <virgo-inbox>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	eclipse, glyn.normington, leo.dos.santos, mlippert
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Daniël van 't Ooster

2011-06-17 09:51:05 EDT

Build Identifier: 2.7.0.M2

The directory <workspace>/.metadata/.plugins/com.springsource.server.ide.runtime.core/ seems to contain files used as cache. The amount of files seems to grow exponentially with the number of open projects. When having x open projects, the number of files in this directory (and subdirectory) is about x+x^2 (on my machine, with 54 open projects, 181M). Is there room for optimization here?

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Glyn Normington

2011-06-17 10:10:13 EDT

Thanks for raising this.

I don't understand your working since 54+54^2=2970. Where did the 181M come from? Is that 181 Mb rather than 181 million files?

Comment 2 Daniël van 't Ooster

2011-06-17 10:23:09 EDT

Hi Glyn,

it is 181 megabytes of XML files, the directory contains 4185 files, 1004 are coming from the repository subdirectory. The x+x^2 formula is not 100% accurate, but gives a rough idea of the growth of the number of files.

grtz,
Daniël

Comment 3 Glyn Normington

2011-06-17 10:37:22 EDT

Thanks for the clarification! :-)

Comment 4 Miles Parker

2012-02-16 20:40:54 EST

Daniël,

I'm not able to identify the files you're talking about in the current iteration but it's possible I just don't have the same setup you do. The repository/bundles and repository/libraries directories only contain JSON files for me. Can you post an example file along with its locaiton?

thanks,

Miles