On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 8:43 AM, Steffen Daode Nurpmeso <sdao...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hey, > > Dave Anderson wrote [2012-01-28 15:13+0100]: > [.] >> I haven't yet had a chance to look into how cvs works beyond >> reading the man page, faq, etc. > > Also true for me. > >> >> I've run into this problem perhaps a dozen times over the past several >> >> months > [.] > > I've noted a lot of upload network traffic when doing 'cvs up' > on OpenBSD repos; i.e., before anything else happened about > ~70 MB (www) and ~150 MB (src) *upstream* traffic were produced, > and it took more than an hour before the download of data began > (src). I never had similar problems with anoncvs.mindrot.org, nor > cvs.savannah.gnu.org and *.cvs.sourceforge.net etc. > > If you're doing your updates in such a regular manner, i think > your best bet is cvsync(1), even if that means additional local > storage - but it is *far* more efficient in both, time and > traffic. (Not to talk about the possibility to do 'cvs log' and > the like locally, without internet connection; if that's an issue.) > Pears similar ciao, > > --steffen >
Steffen, i also used to suffer from this unexplained stuff, and yes i used comstyle/spacehopper thanks... this motivated me to use cvsync from anoncvs and use a CVSROOT=/home/amit/MYLOCALREPO to update from cvs. Much much faster and while initial checkout from cvsync takes 5-10 hrs, the subsequent updates are lightning quick. --amit