Re: Anon CVS lag

[sopwith redhat com (Elliot Lee)]

On Tue, 24 Nov 1998 11:16:24 -0800, Sean McNeil <mcneils@applique.dh.trw.com>
wrote:

>Could someone elaborate on this?  Is a
>
>cvs co `cat my_modules`
>
>doing a parallel update

Nope.

> or do you mean separate cvs commands per module?

Yup, that's what is meant by "parallel update".

I don't think there's a real problem with people firing off parallel updates
as long as they stagger them conscienciously. More of an issue than CPU load
is the fact that a large number of simultaneous connections will make inetd
thing the service is looping, and connections will start getting refused for
a while :-)

-- Elliot
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