[thelist] CVS server specs

Steve Lewis nepolon at worlddomination.net
Wed Sep 14 13:36:29 CDT 2005


Judah McAuley wrote:

> going to be the biggest issue. So have a good hd setup with fast drives 
> and keep it defragged will likely be the biggest performance indicator.

A good point.

If the machine is a dedicated version control system server, it won't 
need to be defragged because it will not become (significantly) fragged 
in the first place.

Version control is naturally additive.  Fragmentation only occurs when 
files are deleted, and files are never truely *deleted* in CVS (for 
example), they just cease to be included in the current version.

If you use it for a file server, you will introduce more fragmentation. 
  If you use it as a SETI at Home client, you will introduce more 
fragmentation.

-- 
SteveL


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