Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 14:53:40 -0400 From: Jonathan Chen <jon@freebsd.org> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: more anoncvs servers Re: none Message-ID: <20010905145340.G28669@enterprise.spock.org> In-Reply-To: <200109051841.f85IfDi07918@vashon.polstra.com>; from jdp@polstra.com on Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 11:41:13AM -0700 References: <F209GUjGnAKYoo9tjxq000052dc@hotmail.com> <20010905094236.G96880@dragon.nuxi.com> <200109051754.f85HsKH07526@vashon.polstra.com> <20010905143718.F28669@enterprise.spock.org> <200109051841.f85IfDi07918@vashon.polstra.com>
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On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 11:41:13AM -0700, John Polstra wrote: > In article <20010905143718.F28669@enterprise.spock.org>, > Jonathan Chen <jon@FreeBSD.ORG> 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. Yep, you are right. cvs writes the shadow stuff in /tmp. bleah. -Jon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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