Re: [fetchmail-devel] Re: SVN woes :-(

[Matthias A. <ma...@dt...>]

Graham Wilson <bo...@de...> writes:

> I'd be more than willing to host the fetchmail Subversion repository on
> my machine via Apache. The machine isn't too fast, but it is well
> connected. Let me know what you guys think.

I can't estimate how much CPU horsepower SVN requires, otherwise, that
would be fine with me but isn't my call.

Even "lowly" servers such as a P-II should suffice, I've looked after
such a server (P-II/233, 128 MB EDO RAM) with five regular and 30
occasional users over years that was mail
(SMTP+IMAP/SSL+POP3/SSL)/NFS/application/FTP/Apache (with CGI)/CVS
server, no problem - it was idling around 90%, not counting sendfile()
time though.

Its successor, an XP1700+ with 512 MB of RAM has spent 0.5% in each of
user and system space and 4% nice -- and only because it ran "john
-incremental" to reveal trivial passwords. The rest is idle time,
usually well above 97%.

The time when CPU horsepower matters is when the machine is either under
constant load or needs good response time for a bursty access profile.

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Matthias Andree

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