On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 12:17:18AM +0000, SRabbelier@gmail.com wrote:
> Heya,
>
> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 01:38, Robin H. Johnson robbat2@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> Relatedly, throwing more RAM (6GiB total, vs. the previous 2GiB) at the 
>> server
>> in this case cut the 200 wallclock minutes before any sending too place 
>> down to
>> 5 minutes.
> I'm curious what kind of hardware changes you made to achieve such an 
> enormous effect? Was it just added RAM on the same machine?
No, see the paragraph previous to that, showing it was a different machine that
just happened to have 6GiB of RAM.

The key difference is that having 6GiB of RAM was enough to stop the
swap/OOM-killing of git-pack-objects/git-upload-pack that happened on the slow
server, which I considered to be entirely unwarranted since the pack was
already generated and perfect for use.

"Slow" server:
- deadline scheduler
- AMD Opteron 1210, single socket, 2 cores @ 1.8GHZ
- 2GB Reg ECC RAM
- 2x ST3250620AS, RAID1
- 100Mbit internet feed, co-located in Texas.

"Fast" server:
- deadline scheduler
- Intel Core2 Q6600, single socket, 4 cores @ 2.4GHz
- ~5.7GiB of cheap RAM (6GiB in the box, 256 not usable due to BIOS MTRR brokeness)
- 7x ST3320620AS, RAID-5.
- Sitting on my home LAN, with a very crappy upload bandwidth to the Internet.

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Gentoo Linux Developer & Infra Guy
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