Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 22:20:16 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> To: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@acm.org> Cc: John Kennedy <jk@jk.homeunix.net> Subject: Re: FreeBSD CVS Question Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040113221815.37914C-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <40048955.70007@acm.org>
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On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Tim Kientzle wrote: > I have a FreeBSD box that's on all of the time (my NFS and Samba > server), so I just run cvsup from cron on that to copy the CVS repo, > then do a cvs checkout over NFS onto local work machines. FYI, I've often found that tunneling CVS over SSH is substantially faster than NFS. This appears to be a property of CVS doing some sort of explicit pipelining, whereas with NFS, it spends a lot of time blocked on synchronous stat() operations against the CVS repository. Of course, last time I used CVS over NFS seriously was on 10mbps ethernet, so this well be a non-event with gigabit. :-) Setting up the SSH connection is slightly more expensive, but the reduced apparent latency makes a big difference. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert@fledge.watson.org Senior Research Scientist, McAfee Research
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