problems with subversions.gcc.org

[Ian Lance Taylor]

"Dave Korn" <dk@artimi.com> writes:

>   Alternatively, I experienced a similar phenomenon with sources.redhat.com
> earlier today.  By about the third or fourth try I decided to just leave it
> for as long as it took.  It turned out that I just wasn't waiting long
> enough before deciding it had failed:  after about five or ten minutes of
> being seemingly stalled and no network traffic arriving, my update continued
> and completed successfully.  I think it's an aspect of the behaviour of CVS
> under heavy load, that users will experience long pauses.

This is expected when using pserver mode in CVS.  We have 10 open
slots for pserver CVS on sources.redhat.com.  If all the slots are
taken, incoming connections are accepted and then stalled until one of
the 10 slots becomes free.

Ian