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Re: ssh often hangs where pserver succeeds
- To: "Martin v. Loewis" <martin at loewis dot home dot cs dot tu-berlin dot de>
- Subject: Re: ssh often hangs where pserver succeeds
- From: sidster <sidster at ktb dot net>
- Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 15:27:22 -0700 (PDT)
- cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
On Wed, 3 May 2000, Martin v. Loewis wrote:
> > I have noticed that cvs over ssh often hangs, especially for
> > long-running diffs and updates. Running without locks via `cvs -n'
> > helps for diffs, but doesn't work correctly for updates. On a whim I
> > reverted to pserver and so far it has succeeded every time where ssh
> > had been hanging.
> >
> > Has anyone else experienced hangs with cvs over ssh?
>
> I have that problem not (only) with ssh, but with plain anonymous CVS
> as well. There was a long discussion a couple of weeks ago, where for
> example XEmacs people reported they have the same problem. I filed a
> CVS bug report, but nothing happened so far. Cygnus (specifically,
> Jeff) claimed that there was no bandwidth shortage on their end, so I
> still suspect a bug in CVS somewhere.
I've had similar paroblems, but only lately (passed week or so). I
assumed it's either a bandwidth problem or a configuration (change) issue
with anoncvs.
I haven't attempted cvs over ssh (export CVS_RSH=ssh) yet.
sidster--