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[Aaron Kulkis <akulkis3@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thomas Hertweck wrote:
> JJB wrote:
>   
> > Price for the system is the same with quad core 1.6 or dual core 3.0 ghz,
> >
> > It has mirrored drives... Do your think that cvs + subversion will get 
> > any benefit from 2gb vs 1gb? 
> >     
>
> I think if your new server is only going to be used as SVN server for 15
> developers and nothing else (it's not a public server etc.), then it's
> certainly not necessary to have lots of CPU power. It won't be used,
> even if you stored lots of binary data or had fancy hook scripts. I
> would consider a decent network connection, fast disks and a good backup
> mechanism as more relevant than CPU power.

This analysis is correct.

With file servers, the bottlenecks are disk access and network throughput.

CPUs are running at such high speed that you would need a couple HUNDRED
network connections and also a couple HUNDRED disk drives to saturate
the CPU.




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