Re: No CVS, No snapshots!! ;=(

[Raja R Harinath <harinath cs umn edu>]

Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com> writes:
> > On Sat, 6 Jun 1998, Ronald Offerman wrote:
> > > With anon-CVS denied and no daily snapshots available (snapshots,
> > > which IMHO cause more bandwidth trouble than the anon-CVS
> > > updates), we gnome-lurkers are stranded.
> 
> The problem wasn't bandwidth.  The problem was dozens of cvs sessions
> on the server that were sending the system load through the roof.

Hmm...  Probably all those `cvs -z9's.  `mozilla.org' suggests the use
of `cvs -z3'.  Apparently -z9 gives logarithmic improvement in
compression with exponential increase in load (in simpler words, -z9
causes a large increase in CPU load for marginally better compression).

- Hari
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