Re: CVS hangs intermittently

[Matt Riechers]

John S O'Sullivan wrote:
> 
> I running CVS version 1.11.1p1 on cywin b20 (I am unfortunately locked to
> this version of Cygwin). CVS uses a local repository on an attached network
> drive.

Many troubles have been reported with CVS and network file systems. Try
the client/server setup instead if possible. See the list archives for
*lots* of discussion on this topic.

> It has been running for 2 months. In the last two weeks I have noticed a
> tendency for CVS to hang. The behaviour is as follows. When you issue a cvs
> command it will run but not will not complete.

Try running cvs in trace mode (cvs -t) to get a more detailed picture of
the problem.

Good luck.

-Matt