Re: Creating a tag

[law at redhat dot com]

In message <98810000.1024508455@warlock.codesourcery.com>, Mark Mitchell writes
:
 > I'm trying to create a tag with "cvs tag".
 > 
 > I started that operation at 9:00 AM; it's now 10:36 AM.  I've been
 > watching "waiting for ...'s lock" messages go by that entire time.
 > (With different lognames and directories over that time period, but
 > with the same directories appearing more than once.)
That indicates that you're making progress (albiet slowly).

 > Does CVS refuse to grab a lock for me until it can grab locks in all of
 > the directories at once, or some such?  (Such a protocol might be in
 > use to avoid deadlock.)
Not that I'm aware of.  Which is why I find it interesting that the same
directory appeared more than once.

While the solution is to get the new server in-place, I suspect it's not
at the top of Chris's todo list.

Watching the machine for the last few minutes it appears that we're getting
some http storms, but the machine seems to be dealing with those reasonably
well.

It's also the case that the mail system appears to be going crazy -- we've
had some folks looping messages back to the server that has caused some
problems recently, though I thought I had unsubscribed the offenders.

Temporarily turning off qmail & http has allowed me to rule them out as
the primary cause of problems -- even with those turned off the machine
continues to thrash, primarily on IO requests.

>From looking at the remaining services that were running, the most obvious
culprit is the anoncvs users.  Sigh.  I'll have to look a little deeper
into this later, but it may be the case that we need to further limit
anon cvs usage.

jeff