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On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, Carsten Haitzler wrote:
OK people....
It seems CVS issues have been getting worse of late - SF.NET is being more
overloaded than ever, and thinktux needs to go down soon enough. We need to
solve this. Now This isn't edict, or guaranteed to happen, but it's an IDEA
open for discussion.
<snip>
Now if enough users are willing to donate something - like $20 or $50 here and
there we can afford such a machine and thus bring CVS access and source access
up to top level standards.
I'd be willing to do $20, $50 at most if it's needed.
This mail is meant to do 3 things.
1. Consider if this is a sane option at all (IMHO with a little work it is and
opens up lots of future possibilities).
Definately as I grab e17 only via CVS. ;)
2. If so - what box do we really need? I am thinking something like:
dual opteron/xeon or amd64 (like 2 phsical cpu's) and maybe get 2x dual core
cpu's - but don't get the expensive ones - midrange (to handle the cvs load) eg
amd64 3800's (2ghz dual core amd64 - 2 of these cpu's (so 4 cores total)), 1GB
ram minimum - likely 2-4 GB maybe for lots of disk cache, a 2u box/case and a
raid drive setup (disks go bad - setup at least raid mirroring with striped
reads doubling our read rates, and a failure is no big deal other than needing
to send out a replacement), with removable drive bays because drives go bad -
make life easy on the hosters. If a drive goes bad - limp along without backup
for a week or 2, get new drive, insert & fixed. Otherwise the rest is pretty
standard (100mbit or gigabit ethernet - irrelevant which really) etc. etc. this
can of course all be discussed as to what people think is a good value for
money box that meets our needs.
Sounds good, though you may want to have more RAM and a faster/sturdy NIC,
IMO.
3. Are people willing to donate enough $ to make it happen?
Yep!
So what do you guys think?
Perhaps also look into other SCMs (e.g. svn, svk, arch, bzr, git,
etc.) which may have a lesser load/problems. SVN is the 'natural'
choice as it's a 'modernized' CVS. Most of these SCMs have a
CVS<->$SCM gateway/coverter for those who don't want to convert or so
you can use both CVS and $SCM at the same time while you figure out
which you'd like.
- -sandalle
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Eric Sandall | Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer
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http://eric.sandall.us/ | SysAdmin @ Inst. Shock Physics @ WSU
http://counter.li.org/ #196285 | http://www.shock.wsu.edu/
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