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

Greg Black gjb at gbch.net
Thu Oct 10 21:57:52 EDT 2002


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Robert Brockway wrote:

| On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Greg Black wrote:
| 
| > 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
| 
| Have you tried compressing the ssh link?  I've setup cvs over ssh for the
| developers here at work.  It'll be interesting to see if they complain.
| We have 10Mbit/sec to the desktop (short sightedness in building design)
| so if they checkout large amounts of data I could see a noticable delay.

Over ADSL, I use compression; over the 100 Mb local LAN and the
loopback, I don't.  All are very slow (according to my internal
slowness meter).

Greg

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