Bob Archer <bob.arc...@amsi.com> wrote on 04/22/2011 09:39:03 AM: > > > in most cases, you don't want to host a SVN repository on Windows. > > Why? We are a windows "shop" and we have windows servers and we host > on windows. I've seen zero problems. I think this type of anti-ms > FUD is going to be bad for svn if it is widely said and published.
One big reason is that 64-bit apache is not as mainstream on Windows. There are open source builds, and there is now a 64-bit mod_dav_svn available on Windows, but neither collabnet or wandisco say more than "coming soon". I regularly see Apache use >8GB of RAM on one of our 64-bit windows servers during some large repo transactions. This is not just cache usage. When it was running under a 32-bit apache it just kept hard crashing apache when it hit 2GB of RAM usage, which disconnects all user sessions. Not nice... That being said, once moving to a 64-bit apache on windows things have been much more stable. Our unix servers (on the same caliber of hardware) are handling a lot more load than windows, but I don't have any specific performance stats to prove that windows is the limiting factor. Kevin R.
