Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 10:11:09 -0700 From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Problems with the new mail-archive collection Message-ID: <199706221711.KAA13775@austin.polstra.com>
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The unusual character of the new mail-archive collection has exposed a long-standing bug in CVSup. If any of you are trying to get this new collection, I'd advise you to give up until I'm able to get out a new release to fix the problem. The problem comes from the fact that a few of the files in the collection are both very large (> 100 MB) and very frequently updated on the master host hub.FreeBSD.org. The worst offenders are freebsd-hackers and freebsd-questions. Currently, cvsupd does a stat() to determine the size of the file when sending it for the first time. Then it sends the indicated number of bytes. For these huge files, it takes a long time. Often, the files have received new messages during the transfer, making them longer. Cvsupd notices this after it's sent the "whole" file according to the information it got from stat. It complains that the file grew on the server, and proceeds to try to recover in the worst possible way. I know how to fix this and will make a new release as soon as I can. Meanwhile, don't bother trying to use the new collection. I would disable it entirely, but Jordan is using it to keep wcarchive up to date. It's got a high speed link to freefall and the files transfer very quickly, so the problem isn't so serious for that particular application. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth
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