CVS hangs on checkout of large project

[Francis Hwang]

I'm trying to use CVS to import a large pre-existing project -- the files
are about 1 Gig -- and I'm having problems with the checkout.

The import goes fine, but when I checkout, it hangs at one particular file.
It seems to be the same one every time, but this file is unexceptional --
it's a 12k text file with no unusual permissions. The repository and my
working directory are going to be on the same machine -- I'm not trying to
any CVS over SSH or anything like that.

I've looked online but haven't found much. Does anybody have any ideas as to
where I might look for more info?

Thanks,

Francis