RE: Subversion vs multicore processors

2010-11-17 Thread David Aldrich
> I doubt if there is a generic answer to that question, but with RHEL6 > recently released, maybe Centos6 will be released soon enough for your > next upgrade and won't be outdated for a while. If you want the > tradeoffs of faster update cycles, the main players are fedora and > ubuntu where fed

Re: Subversion vs multicore processors

2010-11-16 Thread Les Mikesell
On 11/16/10 8:29 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: This is definitely off topic, but it's not RHEL4 or RHEL5 that's unstable. It's the engineering tools, if you run them on whichever is the latest version of RHEL. Because the developers who produce the tools don't have access to the latest OS u

RE: Subversion vs multicore processors

2010-11-16 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: Les Mikesell [mailto:lesmikes...@gmail.com] > > > This is definitely off topic, but it's not RHEL4 or RHEL5 that's unstable. > > It's the engineering tools, if you run them on whichever is the latest > > version of RHEL. Because the developers who produce the tools don't > have > > access

Re: Subversion vs multicore processors

2010-11-16 Thread Les Mikesell
On 11/16/2010 11:23 AM, David Aldrich wrote: Hi With some trepidation ;-) I would like to ask for opinions, somewhat related to this thread. My understanding is that RHEL is intended for servers that must be rock solid e.g. Web servers. In our organisation we run Centos 5 (essentially the sa

RE: Subversion vs multicore processors

2010-11-16 Thread David Aldrich
Hi With some trepidation ;-) I would like to ask for opinions, somewhat related to this thread. My understanding is that RHEL is intended for servers that must be rock solid e.g. Web servers. In our organisation we run Centos 5 (essentially the same as RHEL 5) on all our Linux development mac

Re: Subversion vs multicore processors

2010-11-16 Thread Les Mikesell
On 11/16/2010 7:03 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: Do we really need to continually rehash the discussion of why anyone would ever use RHEL4??? No, but we needed to hash it enough to establish that your 'unstable' comment about RHEL5 had to do with quirks of your environment or choices, not tha

RE: Subversion vs multicore processors

2010-11-16 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: Les Mikesell [mailto:lesmikes...@gmail.com] > > > This has already been mentioned in this thread. I can't speak for > > anyone else, but I personally support engineers and engineering tools. > > The engineering tools are only supported on the latest 2 versions of > > RHEL/centos. Of whic

Re: Subversion vs multicore processors

2010-11-15 Thread Les Mikesell
On 11/15/10 8:23 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: Has someone had specific problems with the rpmforge rpms? I've been using them on centos5 without any trouble, Neither rpmforge, nor epel has subversion>= 1.5 for rhel4. Umm, OK - we're way off topic now but I'd ask the same question about run

RE: Subversion vs multicore processors

2010-11-15 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: Les Mikesell [mailto:lesmikes...@gmail.com] > > > On RHEL4 / RHEL5, I find it ridiculously easy to build svn from > > source. > > Here is my build script: > >> > >> Has someone had specific problems with the rpmforge rpms? I've been > >> using them on centos5 without any trouble, >

Re: Subversion vs multicore processors

2010-11-15 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > (b) other than building from source, there's no better way that I know to > get the latest svn 1.6 in rhel4 / rhel5.  AKA, there are no rpm's available > that I know of, which I trust more than building from source as described. For RP

Re: Subversion vs multicore processors

2010-11-15 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: >> From: Les Mikesell [mailto:lesmikes...@gmail.com] >> >> On 11/15/2010 9:17 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: >> > >> >>> On RHEL4 / RHEL5, I find it ridiculously easy to build svn from > source. >> >>> Here is my build script: >> >> Has some

Re: Subversion vs multicore processors

2010-11-15 Thread Les Mikesell
On 11/15/2010 10:27 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: From: Les Mikesell [mailto:lesmikes...@gmail.com] On 11/15/2010 9:17 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: On RHEL4 / RHEL5, I find it ridiculously easy to build svn from source. Here is my build script: Has someone had specific problems with the rp

RE: Subversion vs multicore processors

2010-11-15 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: Les Mikesell [mailto:lesmikes...@gmail.com] > > On 11/15/2010 9:17 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > > > >>> On RHEL4 / RHEL5, I find it ridiculously easy to build svn from source. > >>> Here is my build script: > > Has someone had specific problems with the rpmforge rpms? I've been using >

Re: Subversion vs multicore processors

2010-11-15 Thread Les Mikesell
On 11/15/2010 9:17 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: On RHEL4 / RHEL5, I find it ridiculously easy to build svn from source. Here is my build script: Great: now reliably provide HTTP/HTTPS access for offsite repository use, configure mod_dav_svn for local HTTP and HTTPS server usage, utilities wi

RE: Subversion vs multicore processors

2010-11-15 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: Nico Kadel-Garcia [mailto:nka...@gmail.com] > Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2010 4:38 PM > > On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 12:23 AM, Edward Ned Harvey > wrote: > >> From: Nico Kadel-Garcia [mailto:nka...@gmail.com] > >> > >> RHEL 5 still directly only provides Subversion 1.4.2. EPEL will not > >

Re: Subversion vs multicore processors

2010-11-13 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 12:23 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: >> From: Nico Kadel-Garcia [mailto:nka...@gmail.com] >> >> RHEL 5 still directly only provides Subversion 1.4.2. EPEL will not > replace it in > > On RHEL4 / RHEL5, I find it ridiculously easy to build svn from source. > Here is my build s

Re: Subversion vs multicore processors

2010-11-13 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Edward Ned Harvey wrote on Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 00:23:54 -0500: > ./configure --prefix=$INSTALLDIR --with-ssl && \ > make && \ > make install && \ > echo "" && \ > echo "installed ok: ${INSTALLDIR}/bin/svn" set -e ./configure make make install set +e More readable?

RE: Subversion vs multicore processors

2010-11-12 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: Nico Kadel-Garcia [mailto:nka...@gmail.com] > > RHEL 5 still directly only provides Subversion 1.4.2. EPEL will not replace it in On RHEL4 / RHEL5, I find it ridiculously easy to build svn from source. Here is my build script: #!/bin/bash VERSION=1.6.12 INSTALLDIR=/usr/local/subversion-$

Re: Subversion vs multicore processors

2010-11-12 Thread Les Mikesell
On 11/12/10 8:09 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: On 11/12/10 6:11 PM, Dominic Lemire wrote: Hello, Does anyone know if a Subversion server can make use of multiple CPU cores to speed-up long operations? (not just simultaneous requests) I'm p

Re: Subversion vs multicore processors

2010-11-12 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 11/12/10 6:11 PM, Dominic Lemire wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> Does anyone know if a Subversion server can make use of multiple CPU cores >> to >> speed-up long operations? (not just simultaneous requests) >> >> I'm profiling my (dual core) ser

Re: Subversion vs multicore processors

2010-11-12 Thread Les Mikesell
On 11/12/10 6:11 PM, Dominic Lemire wrote: Hello, Does anyone know if a Subversion server can make use of multiple CPU cores to speed-up long operations? (not just simultaneous requests) I'm profiling my (dual core) server running subversion 1.4.2 (and trac wiki), and I realized the CPU usage o