On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Naumenko, Roman <roman.naume...@rbccm.com> wrote: > On 2013/07/08 2:06 PM, Thomas Harold wrote: >> On 7/8/2013 11:32 AM, Naumenko, Roman wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> How fast would you expect svn checkout to be from a server like one >>> below? Considering eveyrthing on the server functioning as expected. >>> >> Our bottleneck is usually the CPU, but we're doing svn+ssh access. So >> I lean towards a few less but more powerful cores. >> >> The only time we thrash the disks is when doing the nightly hotcopy of >> our repositories (total of about 110GB). > > That box has more than enough CPUs (forty), cores are barely utilized. > How is the access over ssh can be configured? I thought it's only > http(s) or svn proto.
Unless you've got a very, very heavily utilized server, more than 4 cores is probably overkill. Disk I/O is more important than CPU cores for most users.
