Analyze of VOB Size Report

From the chart in my previous blog, we can see that the size of one of the VOBs, FrontEnd, has increased sharply (by 250MB) over Feb 13. There are several reason could led to this. The most possible one is new code is being introduced into source control. A simple command can do this:

cleartool setview ccadmin_view
cd /vobs/FrontEnd
cleartool find -all -elem '{created_since(13-Feb-2008)}' -print

...

/vobs/FrontEnd/.@@/main/artemenk_CBFE15Pre/3/Framework/main/
artemenk_CBFE15Pre/8/wsee/main/artemenk_CBFE15Pre/1/api.jar@@

/vobs/FrontEnd/.@@/main/artemenk_CBFE15Pre/3/Framework/main/
artemenk_CBFE15Pre/8/wsee/main/artemenk_CBFE15Pre/1/com.bea.core.annogen_1.1.0.0.jar@@

/vobs/FrontEnd/.@@/main/artemenk_CBFE15Pre/3/Framework/main/
artemenk_CBFE15Pre/8/wsee/main/artemenk_CBFE15Pre/1/com.bea.core.antlr_2.7.7.jar@@

/vobs/FrontEnd/.@@/main/artemenk_CBFE15Pre/3/Framework/main/
artemenk_CBFE15Pre/8/wsee/main/artemenk_CBFE15Pre/1/com.bea.core.common.security.api_4.1.0.0.jar@@
...

After browsing through the result, we can conclude that a new directory with some large libraries have been newly added to ClearCase. And the increase of the VOB size is normal.