Gentoo Archives: gentoo-scm

From: Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o>
To: "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-scm@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-scm] Status of the project?
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:17:00
Message-Id: 20090128211657.GA4812@comet
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-scm] Status of the project? by "Robin H. Johnson"
1 On 01:45 Sat 24 Jan , Robin H. Johnson wrote:
2 > Secondary delay is that I asked for some input on hardware and tuning re
3 > managing a very large repo, and still haven't got a response from my
4 > contact (at kernel.org). Regardless of the tuning, we're going to need
5 > to figure out a box with lots of RAM for the repo size.
6
7 19:56 < warthog9 > dberkholz- git is basically unnoticable by itself
8 19:58 < dberkholz > warthog9: so RAM and IO are both pretty minimal for git
9 itself?
10 19:59 < warthog9 > dberkholz- we were running git+gitweb+all of our http
11 mirroring on one box for a long time, and it was gitweb
12 that was killing us
13 20:00 < warthog9 > dberkholz- to give you an idea, the machines that are
14 dealing with our pub mirroring (I.E. www.kernel.org/pub/)
15 gitweb (android.git, mirror.git, git), git, etc is at a
16 wopping load of 1
17 20:02 < warthog9 > (mind you this is a dual quad core with 16G of ram and like
18 4T of sas storage but yeah)
19 20:03 < Ramereth@> warthog9: do you do anything special w/ xinetd or tmpfs w/
20 the git-daemon?
21 20:03 < warthog9 > Ramereth- nope
22 20:04 < warthog9 > I run different git-daemons for things like mirror.git,
23 android.git and git but that's because they are on separate
24 ips
25
26 --
27 Thanks,
28 Donnie
29
30 Donnie Berkholz
31 Developer, Gentoo Linux
32 Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com