[H-GEN] CVS is very very slow ...

Edwin Groothuis edwin at mavetju.org
Thu Oct 10 09:18:01 EDT 2002


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On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 10:51:20PM +1000, Raymond Smith wrote:
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> On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Bruce Campbell wrote:
> > At a rough guess, 'a minute or two' is roughly 75 seconds, being the
> > average DNS timeout.  Hence, either /etc/resolv.conf on the cvs server is
> > now (with the IP address change) incorrect, or as Edwin points out, the
> > new subnet has not been setup correctly.
> 
> Edwin and Bruce are quite right. Two things I would add to the mix are:
> first, you should look in the CVSROOT module of the repository for any
> scripts that might be trying to send mail or use some other service that
> no longer works as expected; second, in my experience pserver is a pain
> and I would recommend using SSH (and the CVS_RSH=ssh variable) if
> possible. This has the advantage of 'just working' and is also encrypted,
> etc.

I was recommending doing it on the cvspserver port because that
will allow you to find out what happens. With SSH you see only
garbage (one process' garbage is another process treasure). Encryption
is good, but it makes debugging oh so difficult.

Edwin

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