optimal Windows Server 2003 hardware configuration

[Randy McCharles <Ra...@smarttech.com>]

After testing Subversion on A WindowsXP box we are looking at setting up a production server.
The question we have is: what is an optimal hardware configuration for a Windows server for 50 developers maintaining 100,000 source files, including large binaries?
How high end a box should this be? Dual core? Quad? 2 GB? 4 GB? At what point will excess resources sit around unused?


Randy McCharles

SMART Technologies Inc.

Senior Software Developer

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Re: optimal Windows Server 2003 hardware configuration

[Nathan Kidd <na...@spicycrypto.ca>]

Randy McCharles wrote:
> After testing Subversion on A WindowsXP box we are looking at setting up 
> a production server.
> The question we have is: what is an optimal hardware configuration for a 
> Windows server for 50 developers maintaining 100,000 source files, 
> including large binaries?
> 
> How high end a box should this be? Dual core? Quad? 2 GB? 4 GB? At what 
> point will excess resources sit around unused?

Depending on your backend choice (FSFS/BDB) you might be better off 
first asking: what file system?  NTFS is notorious for dog-slow 
performance with many files.  Even if you use BDB, if you make 
significant use of locking you'll still take a significant performance 
hit for some operations (like 'ls -R' AKA TSVN Repo Browser).

We're OK running a single Xeon 3ghz, 2GB, SCSI 320 Win2003 box to serve 
roughly 50 devs, and various repositories with up to 25K files (in 
/trunk).  We're stuck on Win2003 for now because the machine does more 
than serve svn.  If I had the choice I'd switch back to Linux (and a 
better filesystem) in a heartbeat.  For some locking tests I found my 
P2-400 512MB IDE test box was 2x faster than the Win2003 server, using 
copies of the same svn repo.

-Nathan

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