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

Edwin Groothuis edwin at mavetju.org
Thu Oct 10 09:33:53 EDT 2002


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On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 11:24:20PM +1000, Raymond Smith wrote:
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> On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> How do you mean? What does pserver give you that 'cvs -t' doesn't? I must
> admit I don't have a great deal of experience with pserver, but I've never
> had much of a problem 'debugging' CVS. (Weirdness usually comes down to
> hacks on the scripts in CVSROOT.)

I suggested him to run tcpdump, so he could see what was going over
the wire and when it stalled. With the non-encrypted cvspserver
stream, he would be able to see when and where it actually stalls.
With the encrypted ssh stream, he only see when it stalls, not where.

Edwin

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