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Redmine Cookbook

By : Pavic
Book Image

Redmine Cookbook

By: Pavic

Overview of this book

In a variety of online project management tools, Redmine markets itself as offering flexibility. Choosing the right management tool can mean the difference between the success and failure of a project. Flexible project management tools bend themselves to fit your needs, whether that’s communication regarding a simple project, or collaboration, or more complex project methodology such as SCRUM, or an issue-code relationship, or the need of different methodology for your project. Whether you are project manager or system administrator, this book provides valuable recipes to get the best possible performance out of your team, organization, infrastructure, and Redmine itself. Through a series of carefully crafted recipes covering the nitty-gritty of Redmine, you’ll be guided through the installation of Redmine, as well as how to fine-tune and customize your Redmine installation. Finally, we walk you through integrating Redmine with other softwares and databases like Tortoise SVN and Visual Studio and troubleshooting Redmine.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
11
Index

Getting the most from a single server


Nowadays, it is possible to have servers with 3 TB of Ram memory, 10 TB or more of SSD or SAS raid drives, 4 processors with 16 cores each and multiple network cards. Such a server should be able to serve thousands of users or virtualize many servers without even breaking a sweat. This recipe offers some Redmine speed-up techniques to minimize response times and maximize server usage.

How to do it…

Whether you are purchasing a new server or already own one, here is how to allocate resources so that your application server is utilized optimally.

Step 1: Plan your usage

The first step is to determine the number of users that you want to concurrently serve without spawning new processes.

Tip

If you preallocate too much RAM, your server might end up getting lower performance because it might start swapping too soon.

Then, you need to find the ideal ratio between application server and database. You can see a sample of a good configuration for Redmine, considering...