Re: cvs pserver performance

[HMahaffey]

In a message dated 1/26/01 3:52:56 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
address@hidden writes:

> > I have, but I think these occur when the client doesn't close down the
> > connection to the server properly.  Sometimes I have pserver process
> > that hangs around for a couple of days, and I (or someone else)
> > kills these off by hand with kill -9.  This will leave the server
> > directory around.  A normal kill seems to clean up after itself.
>
> Interesting.  The server is supposed to use the SO_KEEPALIVE socket
> option to detect broken connections; I wonder why it's not working.  And
> note that kill -9 should be the last resort for dealing with hung
> processes, not the first resort.


Our "/tmpcvs" directory is always filling up with directories named like 
"cvs-servXXXXX" (where XXXX appears to correspond to a process id that may or 
may not exist) and files named "cvsLAAa07266", which I don't know corresponds 
to anything or not.  We have a script which takes the directories older than 
2 days, kills proces XXXX and removes the directory.  

What causes these things?  Ctrl-c from the client?  We've noticed that it 
appears as though a Ctrl-c during an "rtag" doesn't stop the server.  The 
client returns, but the server runs on.

:)hal mahaffey