[cvsnt] CVS server requirement

[Tony Hoyle]

On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 09:45:44 +0200, Bo Berglund
<bo.berglund at telia.com> wrote:

>On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 09:24:05 +0100, "Peter Crowther"
><Peter.Crowther at melandra.com> wrote:
>
>>- A few megabytes of RAM, although that can rise at the instant you
>>check in a large file as CVSNT stores the file in RAM while it is
>>processing.  It's certainly not a memory hog.
>>
>You will need more than a "few" megabytes since CVSNT does *all* of
>its file operations in memory. If you have a binary file of any size
>(like an exe file) and you have say 100 revisions of this file, then
>you will need a couple of 100 megabytes of RAM.
>I say, don't go below 512 Mb RAM on the server...
>
In truth it's not quite that bad - you'd only need that if you tried
to checkout version 1.1 of the file...  however speccing your hardware
below that is really not worth it given the price of memory these
days.

Tony