Re: Active-Active Clustering with Subversion

2010-05-10 Thread kmradke
BD wrote on 05/10/2010 09:52:39 AM: > Thats a very interesting way of looking at this problem. It does > make sense that multiple commit processes coming from the same > machine really wouldnt be that different from the question I was > asking. I guess from here I'll have to do some testing som

Re: Active-Active Clustering with Subversion

2010-05-10 Thread BD
Thanks Hyrum, Thats a very interesting way of looking at this problem. It does make sense that multiple commit processes coming from the same machine really wouldnt be that different from the question I was asking. I guess from here I'll have to do some testing somehow, with nfs in the mix and see

Re: Active-Active Clustering with Subversion

2010-05-10 Thread Hyrum K. Wright
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 8:08 PM, BD wrote: > > So the question remains, taking physical restraints out of the question, is > there anyone out there who knows about managing the risks assocciated with > having two or more apache/svn nodes accessing repos that are stored on a > shared NFS storage sy

Re: Active-Active Clustering with Subversion

2010-05-07 Thread BD
Thanks Les, I know NFS itself can certainly be a bottleneck. However, we will be devoting at least three shelves of disk on our NetApp 3070 which in our standard RAID group size will make for about 38 data spindles and we will have have 256 GB of read cache per head on a two head storage system.

Re: Active-Active Clustering with Subversion

2010-05-07 Thread Les Mikesell
On 5/7/2010 10:26 AM, BD wrote: Hi All, I'm starting a new project to consolidate all svn repos across our company into a single instance. Originally we looked at doing a active-passive cluster, but after looking at the loads on the current individual svn repos, we are thinking that an active-ac

Re: Active-Active Clustering with Subversion

2010-05-07 Thread BD
Thanks for the reply Ryan, I'll have to look further into how locking is setup on our NetApp FAS 3070. We were also considering using GFS to handle the locking, have you heard anything about users having multiple svn compute nodes connecting to a repo on GFS and using distributed lock manager? I

Re: Active-Active Clustering with Subversion

2010-05-07 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On May 7, 2010, at 10:26, BD wrote: > I'm starting a new project to consolidate all svn repos across our company > into a single instance. Originally we looked at doing a active-passive > cluster, but after looking at the loads on the current individual svn repos, > we are thinking that an act

Active-Active Clustering with Subversion

2010-05-07 Thread BD
Hi All, I'm starting a new project to consolidate all svn repos across our company into a single instance. Originally we looked at doing a active-passive cluster, but after looking at the loads on the current individual svn repos, we are thinking that an active-active cluster would be preferable.