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Date:      Tue, 13 Apr 1999 01:10:33 -0500
From:      "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com>
To:        John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
Cc:        schuerge@wurzelausix.CS.Uni-SB.DE, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvsup
Message-ID:  <19990413011033.V11572@futuresouth.com>
In-Reply-To: <199904130552.WAA73931@vashon.polstra.com>; from John Polstra on Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 10:52:52PM -0700
References:  <199904121820.UAA09661@wurzelausix.cs.uni-sb.de> <199904130552.WAA73931@vashon.polstra.com>

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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.



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