From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 5 11:41:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BB3937B40B; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 11:41:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f85IfDg42045; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 11:41:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@wall.polstra.com) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.11.6/8.11.0) id f85IfDi07918; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 11:41:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp) Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 11:41:13 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200109051841.f85IfDi07918@vashon.polstra.com> To: current@freebsd.org From: John Polstra Cc: jon@freebsd.org Subject: Re: more anoncvs servers Re: none In-Reply-To: <20010905143718.F28669@enterprise.spock.org> References: <20010905094236.G96880@dragon.nuxi.com> <200109051754.f85HsKH07526@vashon.polstra.com> <20010905143718.F28669@enterprise.spock.org> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <20010905143718.F28669@enterprise.spock.org>, Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:54:20AM -0700, John Polstra wrote: > > - You need an MFS filesystem with zillions of inodes, because > > anonymous CVS just hammers the disk with tiny lock files or state > > files. If they are on a drive that has moving parts, your system > > will tear itself apart. > > setting CVSREADONLYFS to 1 will prevent locking. This also means you don't > need to give the anoncvs user write access to the lock directory. I > presume this is where most of the anoncvs hogness lies, so this should make > it go quite a bit faster. Nope. Anoncvs.freebsd.org already has/had CVSREADONLYFS set, but that did not eliminate the need for the MFS. If I recall correctly, remote CVS creates a shadow checkout tree of CVS/ directories and their administrative files for each client. That's what hammers the disk on the server. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message