Re: CVS slow and TCP Compression

[Larry Jones]

Scott Willy writes:
> 
> 1) Not sure its a duplex problem as FTP does not have this speed problem.
>    I just downloaded 8MB in 37 seconds. One would think a duplex problem
>    would affect all protocols.
>    [8647568 bytes sent in 37.5 secs (2.3e+02 Kbytes/sec)]

Duplex problems frequently affect one direction much more than the
other.  Try uploading with ftp rather than downloading.  And make sure
you're using exactly the same two machines that you're using for CVS.

> 4) By tons of collisions, I mean that the little blinky lite on the hub goes
>    from not blinking to full-on when I start a cvs checkout.

That definitely indicates a serious network problem.

-Larry Jones

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