Re: Automake CVS: load average is too high

[Tim Van Holder]

On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 17:13, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> Could anybody please check what's going on with Automake CVS?  If I'm 
> using anonymous CVS (:pserver:address@hidden:/cvs/automake) it 
> almost always fails:
> 
> $ cvs up
> Fatal error, aborting.
> load average of 25 is too high
> 
> The number varies from 15 to 25.  My guess is that there are runaway 
> processes (CPU hogs) on the anoncvs.cygnus.com.  Old versions of CVS can 
> create such processes on "cvs log -r," or something like that (I don't 
> want to check it).

My guess is that gcc is at fault; it turns out that anoncvs.cygnus.com
and gcc.gnu.org are one and the same machine, and gcc recently had the
3.0.4 release.  I assume many people are still connecting to get that
release.

> Since the CVS server doesn't reply to "cvs version", I assume it's old.

Indeed - it doesn't even support the -C flag to update (though I don't
know what cvs version added it).