From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 12 23:13:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (shell.futuresouth.com [198.78.58.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B24F14C08 for ; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 23:13:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fullermd@futuresouth.com) Received: (from fullermd@localhost) by shell.futuresouth.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id BAA09924; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 01:10:33 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 01:10:33 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: John Polstra Cc: schuerge@wurzelausix.CS.Uni-SB.DE, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvsup Message-ID: <19990413011033.V11572@futuresouth.com> References: <199904121820.UAA09661@wurzelausix.cs.uni-sb.de> <199904130552.WAA73931@vashon.polstra.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <199904130552.WAA73931@vashon.polstra.com>; from John Polstra on Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 10:52:52PM -0700 X-OS: FreeBSD Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 10:52:52PM -0700, a little birdie told me that John Polstra remarked > > Also, try the "-s" option. (Read about it first in cvsup(1).) It > greatly reduces disk activity and will make your updates go faster, > possibly with snappier GUI updates too. Damn, I should RTFM more often ;) I could definately like this. > The GUI performance varies widely between systems. It was so-so > on my old P/90, but it's pretty good on my PII/400. It may be the > disk activity that kills the GUI performance. Disk operations are > non-interruptible, so if the disk is really busy the GUI thread > doesn't get control often enough. (I'm guessing and could be totally > wrong, though.) As a data point, CVSup runs nicely, but if I iconify it and deiconify it, it takes about forEVER (maybe 10, 15 seconds on a PPro 180) to redisplay itself completely. Sucking down CVS repo to /usr/cvs (async, noatime). Under 2.2-S, mind you. --- *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | Matthew Fuller http://www.over-yonder.net/ | * fullermd@futuresouth.com fullermd@over-yonder.net * | UNIX Systems Administrator Specializing in FreeBSD | * FutureSouth Communications ISPHelp ISP Consulting * | "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, | * is because I haven't figured out how to light the * | middle yet" | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message