Re: cvs update lag

[Mark D. Baushke]

address@hidden writes:

> We are seeing major lag when issuing "cvs update . " in the root dir. of any 
> of our dev's checkouts.
> 
> (Major lag as in 5 mins. or MORE)
> 
> A trace shows a long wait @ " -> unlink_file(CVS/Entries.Log)".
> 
> Our CVS server is FreeBSD. The main clients are Solaris and Linux.
> 
> Any clues/hints/pointers of where I should be looking for the lag?

How big is the tree you are checking? Recall that the server builds up a
copy of the impacted files in /tmp/cvs-serv<random> and that at the end
of the cvs update it will need to do the equivalent of a 

  rm -fr /tmp/cvs-serv<random>

to remove any files that have collected on the server side of the
connection.

        -- Mark