Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Web CVS server unavailable

[Bob Proulx]

> There are 293 versions checked in.  Which means that pretty much every
> version is a complete copy of the file since line based diffs are
> saved and there is only one line.  That isn't going to be
> sustainable.  The actual root error is this one.
> 
>   vcs:/tmp/junk# cvs -d /srv/cvs/web/guix co guix/packages
>   cvs checkout: Updating guix/packages
>   cvs [checkout aborted]: Could not map memory to RCS archive
>   /srv/cvs/web/guix/guix/packages/index.html,v: Cannot allocate memory
> 
> vcs has 6 gig of virtual memory available.  This must be exceeding a
> different limit.  But this is why the web page isn't updating.  It is
> hard stuck and isn't going to make any more progress until something
> changes.

I noticed that one of the swap partitions was offline.  Apparently
since the move to the new storage array a couple of weeks ago.  Fixed
that and added it back online bringing vcs from 6 gig to 12 gig of
virtual memory available.

Apparently cvs needs more than 6 gig of space to work on that file!
Because 6 wasn't enough but 12 now is enough.  I could check out that
file.  I will trigger the web page to try an update.  I expect it will
update now.

Bob