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Dan wrote: > Hi, I figured it out, I found the files that were being written to by > doing a find / -cmin 1 During an update. Turns out cvs writes a copy > of every file to /tmp/ > > So I made a tmpfs ramdrive for cvs with: mount -t ramfs none /cvstmp > > And an update went from 5 minutes to less then 30 seconds. I'm pretty > happy now, but does cvs really have to write a copy of every file being > updated to /tmp/ ? Isn't that something that usually should get handled by the system cache for the drive? What's the difference in this case between the use of a ramdrive and the use of a similar-sized cache for a harddisk? Gerhard