FreeBSD CVS Question (answered!)
Garance A Drosihn
drosih at rpi.edu
Tue Jan 13 17:30:36 PST 2004
At 4:46 PM -0800 1/13/04, John Kennedy wrote:
> > From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih at rpi.edu>
>>
> > It depends on what you mean by "a local CVS checkout". On the
>> machines which are doing a CVS checkout, how are they getting
>> to your local copy of the CVS repository? If that repository
>> is NFS-mounted, then you are probably in good shape. If your
>> machines are doing a CVS checkout over RSH or SSH, then your
>> server may be doing a LOT more work than you realize.
>
> Right now it is just on the same machine. You're right that
>SSH would probably involve extra overhead such as the encryption
>(at least for SSH).
That is not the problem. The problem is how CVS itself works
with a remote repository. If you're on machine A, and the
repository is on machine B, then CVS will build a lot of
information in /tmp on machine B when machine 'A' does a
cvs-checkout of the entire tree. The issue is the same if
you do that over 'rsh' instead of 'ssh'. I do not mind the
overhead from encrypting the connection.
This is not much of an issue for small repositories, but it
becomes a major issue when working with a repository as large
as those for freebsd src or ports. I have nearly crashed
servers by doing a cvs-checkout of the freebsd repository,
because the server-machine ran out of disk space.
It is *much* cheaper if the server is giving out the repository
via cvsup, instead of cvs clients.
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Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad at gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer or gad at freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih at rpi.edu
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