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

[John R Sheets <dusk smsi-roman com>]

Raja R Harinath wrote:
> 
> 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).
> 

Is there any way to configure cvs to refuse -z9 requests?  Or map
them to -z3?

John