[cvsnt] Can cvsnt go faster?

Flávio Etrusco flavio.etrusco at gmail.com
Tue Nov 22 21:07:57 GMT 2005


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Hi Tony,

any comments? Don't the files only get created/copied if it needs
update? Or the way locks are done in cvs need the ,v to be copied
before checking it needs an update?

Cheers,
Flávio

On 11/17/05, Dan <dan at silvercrk.com> 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/ ?
>
> Thanks!
> Dan



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