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On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 22:39:09 -0400, "Alexandre O'Hara" <alexandre0984 at hotmail.com> wrote: >as an answer to that, I can tell that AMD k6-2 500 mhz 128 mebs of SDRAM >pc-100 with windows xp (apache, mysql and now CVS) runs really nice. I just >don't login a user and I reduced service (there is no sound and no image >cause i run it with remote desktop) to what I really need and with all of >this running. i'm using 80 to 90 mebs of ram. So there is still free ram! It >was quite simple to to setup. i'm really proud to use my old computer to a >noble cause use insteed of using it as a bookcase! You should be aware that CVS is *very* memory intensive. In principle it loads the complete files into RAM and work on them there, so having just about 30 Mb "free" RAM before you install CVS will mean that it will start swapping to disk almost immediately (virtual memory managed by Windows). This will drag performance down to a crawl. And as you accumulate more and more file revisions, especially on binary files, you will hit this crawl more often. It is also very disk intensive because it creates a lot of temp files and these need fast access, so if the hard disk is not speedy that will also slow down performance. All-in-all you will need a modern PC to run CVSNT on in order not to pull your hair out in desperation.... /Bo (Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)