How do I precache files on a perfoce proxy server in order to obtain some decent speed?

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  •  19-09-2019
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Question

Perforce proxy does cache files only when a user does sync them so if you are the single user of a perforce proxy that is syncing some locations you will gain almost nothing from it.

The question is how to make perforce cache the files for you?

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Solution

The solution for this is to create a scheduled task/crontab that will simulate a sync for you.

You will have to create a branchspec for this client,

export P4CLIENT=prefetch
p4 -Zproxyload sync //depot/main/...

This command will not copy the files to your client, it will only tell the proxy to cache them.

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