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We are replacing our old 2Ghz cvsnt server with a new Dual Opteron 2Ghz/4GB/2 SATA HD system. It's fast :-) Since this is just for cvsnt, we were wondering what OS to use and if we use linux, what filesystem and if we should use software raid (it doesn't have a hardware raid card). We were wanting maximum performance and wanted to see if striping the drives helped (we backup and restore nightly to a hot spare server). Our repository is 4.86GB with 34K files and has been running on cvsnt 2.0.41a for years. Our benchmarking was very simple, do a software build which checks out the code, builds, commits and tags. We only counted the time for the checkout, commit and tag. We expected linux (in this case Fedora Core 4) to win, but were surprised to have W2K3 server post the best numbers. Here are our results: First our hot spare, 1.6Ghz Opteron/2GB/1 IDE HD/W2K3 Server Sp1 Checkout: 6:34 Commit: 16:21 Tag: 21:43 Total: 45:28 Then our new server Fedora Core 4 32bit ext3 Checkout: 5:34 Commit: 5:23 Tag: 8:39 total: 20:12 Fedora Core 4 32bit xfs Checkout: 6:37 Commit: 4:5 Tag: 13:31 Total: 24:13 Fedora Core 4 32bit ext3 with software stripe Checkout: 5:48 Commit: 3:16 Tag: 5:33 total: 14:37 Fedora Core 4 32bit xfs with software stripe Checkout: 5:46 Commit: 2:16 Tag: 5:33 Total: 12:35 Windows 2003 Server Standard NTFS Checkout: 5:23 Commit: 3:19 Tag: 5:29 Total: 14:11 Windows 2003 Server Standard NTFS with software stripe Checkout: 5:40 Commit: 2:38 Tag: 0:51 Total: 10:09 Any suggestions to why our assumptions were wrong? We used the latest RPM and MSI installs. While not a valid benchmark it did have interesting results. Thanks, John Cole ------------------------------------- This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail.