Re: Getting strange error when syncing from CVS

[Fred Kiefer]

Adam Fedor wrote:
> > > Gregory Casamento <greg_casamento@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > cvs server: [21:07:38] waiting for anoncvs's lock in
> > >
> > >
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > > Seems like there are some lingering locks hanging around.
> > >
> > >
> > > Not just that, it takes minutes to authenticate and then again minutes
> > > till the checkout actually starts.
> If you go to the savannah.gnu.org main page it mentions something about 
> mldonkey clients trying to download a bunch of things and swamping the 
> server (I had never heard of mldonkey until then...)

The mldonkey clients may cause the slowness, but the locks should still 
be broken to allow for an update of the base directories.