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Re: Hardware Recommendation

From: John Szakmeister <john_at_szakmeister.net>
Date: 2003-11-04 22:54:12 CET

On Tuesday 04 November 2003 13:14, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
> rbraswell@connected.com writes:
> > I need to set up a svn server on Red Hat 9 for about 50 developers spread
> > around the US and Europe. Can anyone recommend a good hardware
> > configuration? For example, is svn able to make use of mutli-processor
> > machines, or is that just a waste of money?
>
> My unofficial opinion:
>
> There is some concern about the use of Berkeley DB on multi-processor
> machines. I've seen no hard data about real problems here except on
> MacOSX (despite the growth of rumors that seem to indicate otherwise),
> but better to be safe than sorry, right? That said, if you can
> purchase a multi-processor machine and disable one of the processors,
> you might be in a good spot once these fears have been alleviated
> (either as fictional, or due to future bug fixes by the Berkeley DB
> folks).

I tried BDB 4.1.25 once early on at home, and things didn't go well. However,
I've been running Subversion on a my multi-processor machine with BDB 4.0.14
and have had no problems yet. Keep in mind it's only me using this
repository though. :-)

As a sidenote, I'm willing to help out in anyway that I can for testing on
multi-processor machines. Just let me know what I need to do.

-John

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