Serious problems accessing cvs

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 200003072123.WAA01557@loewis.home.cs.tu-berlin.de >you write:
  > > If it's really a bandwidth problem, then throttling back the ftp access
  > > should help.
  > 
  > I'm not entirely certain about that. I notice that updating works
  > quite well when I have no local changes. As soon as it starts merging
  > at the other end, it won't come back. I then kill the update, restart
  > it again, and it sometimes succeeds with the first file to merge, then
  > hangs again.
The more local changes you have, the more data that has to be moved across
the wire.  For each file you change, assume that a copy of it has to be
moved across the net at least once, possibly twice (I'm not a CVS expert, I
can only report what I see in practice).

That machine has cpu, memory & disk bandwidth to burn -- we're not even
close to hitting the capacity of that machine (we're typically using
less than 15% of the cpu horsepower on that box).

The only other thing I can think of is maybe y'all are hitting the machine
during its backup cycle, web database rebuilds or some other nightly task
(which will peg cpu & disk bandwidth for significant periods of time).

I believe ya'll both indicated when you were having trouble, but I don't
have those messages handy.  Can you send me that data privately and I'll
try to see if it corresponds to any of the cron jobs on that box.

jeff