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

[Ewan Edwards]

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Many thanks for the contributions on this issue.

As it turns out there was a notification thing set up via a line in the 
CVSROOT/loginfo file.  It was trying to send an email message via a mail 
server that no longer exists.  Hence the DNS time out thing.



On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 15:35, Ewan Edwards wrote:
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> but only on commits.
>
> This one seems very strange to me.  This is largely because I have almost
> no knowledge at all of using CVS or how CVS works.
>
> I have a CVS repository on a Linux server with the CVS pserver running. 
> All developer access to the repository is via the network.  All developers
> are experiencing the same problem.  The clients are a mixture of Linux,
> Win2k and WinXP workstations.  It doesn't seem to matter whether the
> command line or a GUI client is used for checkouts or check-ins.
>
> The developers tell me that checking files out of the repository works well
> and very quickly, but checking in (commit) is extraordinarily slow.  I'm
> told "a minute or two for just a few k".  These operations should be taking
> a second or two.  From what I've observed the "minute or two" has nothing
> to do with the size of the file.
>
> This problem started when the server and all the developer workstations
> were moved to a new building.  Obviously, the network addresses in the new
> building are different, but all the workstations and the server are still
> on the one subnet.  No changes have been made to the pserver installation
> or configuration as a result of the move.  This may be the problem, but I
> don't know where to look to find out.
>
> I've referred to the CVS book (http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/cvsbook.html)
> and gone through the Tips & Troubleshooting section without result.   I
> have checked the CVSROOT/config file to see if there was something network
> specific I might have missed, but the file is only a bunch of meaningless
> (to me) comments.
>
> <Insert plaintive cry for help here.>



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