Re: Improving CVS Performance?

[Larry Jones]

Vivek Venugopalan writes:
> 
>    We have a 2 GB repository running on a Linux system for over an year.  It
> has a few thousand files (approx 10,000 ) and has started progressievly
> become very slow.  We have a lot of tags (daily builds with a tag for each
> build) and a few branches ( < 10).  Can you folks suggest what are the
> things I can do to improve the overall performance of the system?

Tags are generally very cheap, they don't take up much space or take
much time to process.  I don't have any CVS-specific suggestions, you
just need to do normal system performance tuning: profile your system to
find out what it's doing, identify bottlenecks, then devise solutions. 
Since CVS is not gernerally CPU intensive, it's likely that your problem
involves disk I/O, but you need measurements to be sure.  You can
probably get better advice from a Linux list than you can from here.

-Larry Jones

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