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

[Greg Black]

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Raymond Smith wrote:

| 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 have one additional data point.  I only use CVS over SSH and I
am always astonished at just how slow it is -- in my case, this
is certainly not caused by DNS lookups or anything like that.
In fact, the performance is so sucky that I plan to migrate all
my software repository back to RCS with some scripting and make
rules to replace the functionality of CVS.

This doesn't mean that the OP doesn't have a problem as already
discussed by the contributors to this thread -- I think he does.

Greg

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