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Hi.
recently I decided to test the cvsnt 2.0.62.1817 (still in beta).
Here are my first impression that I hope will help Tony in his way to
the perfect product ;-)
My test machine is a good ol' NT4 workstation with 128 Mb memory (One of
my old developpment computer that now only serves as test machine for
future CVS upgrade)
Installation :
* I'm a bit disappointed you replace the innosetup by the (crappy)
msi installer (I'm a strong supporter of Innosetup ;-)). But I guess,
msi is seen as the industry standard by more and more IT. (It was really
a pain to me , because ,as my OS is NT4, I had to install the installer
(!) before I can install CVSNT.)
* The installer ask to restart the computer. This might really be a
problem because in some company (mine for instance) the cvs server also
serves other purpose and cannot be restarted at will.
* CVSNT Control Panel does not appear anymore in my settings->Control
Pannel
Utilisation :
I use :pserver: as protocol.
I did not had the chance to test it much because everything just went
to big,big,big slowdown (making it near to unusable).
Where it took half a second for CVSNT 2.0.5xd to log,update,branche,...
on one file, it now takes like 3 to 5 minutes !
Even "cvs version" command slowed down.
I tested this with
- client 2.0.51d against server 2.0.51d/58d (ok 0.5 sec)
- client 2.0.51d against server 2.0.62.1817 (nok 3 to 5 minuts)
- client 2.062.1817 against server 2.0.62.1817 (nok 3 to 5 minuts)
Any idea of what can cause this deep slowdown ?
Anything to do with my computer and/or network ? I have seen in the
mailing list many slowdown due to bad DNS, but as 2.0.51d worked very
well I always assume this was OK for us.
Also one question that's on my mind for a while : what is CVSNT
password agent for ? is this usefull when working in pserver ?
Hope this helps and thanks to Tony and others for the great work you do
for the CVSNT community,
Sebastien Abras