Hadware spec for a CVSUP server

[Jonathan Noack]

> In order to prepare the budget I'd need to have few figures on the
> size of the machine to dedicate to the service.
> 
> 1) what is the size of the data to store?

This is not a full list, but here are figures for my partial mirror:
[/home/ncvs] $ du -hd 1
1.4G    ./src
911M    ./ports
182M    ./doc
114M    ./www
1.4M    ./CVSROOT
4.9M    ./CVSROOT-doc
  21M    ./CVSROOT-ports
2.3M    ./CVSROOT-projects
  27M    ./CVSROOT-src
730K    ./distrib
  56M    ./projects
  12K    ./root
2.7G    .

Mirroring www, gnats, and mail-archive takes MUCH MORE space.

> 2) how much new data are coming daily?

Not a whole lot for me.

> 3) any specific resource regarding CPU and memory?

Tons of RAM (I run 2GB and want more) and fast disks will make the 
biggest difference.  As long as your CPU is not overly slow it should 
not hinder you (any modern CPU will do).  This is mostly an I/O operation...

> 4) how much data I am expected to serve daily (that one is tough)?
> 5) any other thing I may forget.

I only use my server in house, so I can't speak to these.

Jon