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

[Sarah Hollings]

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Robert Brockway wrote:
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> On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Greg Black wrote:
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>>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

My experience with CVS has been good.  Client boxen are mostly m$ 
running w2k, server is Debian potato with CVS packaged, on an old PIII 
with IDE disks and a crappy rtl8139 network card.  We have about 5 
different people actively using it.

> 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.

If there is no suggestion of a man-in-the-middle attack, ie you have a 
straight-thru route from a workstation in the workplace, to the CVS 
server, both behind a firewall, why not turn encryption off?  Just use 
the SSH for its tunneling.
http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~ig25/ssh-faq/ssh-faq-4.html#ss4.2

> 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.

Our projects are not huge, but there are no server side scripts (yet). 
Maybe that's the problem for the OP.

I have no actual experience of it, but I understand Cruise Control 
rather than firing on commits, runs every hour (or whatever you specify) 
to do its test builds, update doco, send email or whatever.
http://cruisecontrol.sourceforge.net/main/index.html

We may go this way for CVS server side test/build automation, tho' 
CruiseControl itself is pretty much a Java creature.

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