Re: more cvs performance questions (I think they are at least

[Larry Jones]

Richard Pfeiffer writes:
>
> In our case, as a refresher, our repository is prod. level NFS mounted
> on a dedicated NetApp disk and we have proven that in our case, this is
> much faster.  So: 
> 1) Would it still be advisable to try writing lock files to the local
> /tmp? 

If your /tmp is on a memory-based filesystem like mfs or tmpfs, then
yes.  If it's just a regular disk-based filesystem, probably not.

> 2) Could switching LockDir so that lock files are written to the local
> /tmp increase load on the local machine and increase our problem, since
> that's where our problems lie?

That's unlikely; writing to a memory-based filesystem shouldn't cause
any more load than writing to an NFS filesystem.

> 3) Or, would it be feasble to have LockDir point to a file across NFS,
> but outside of the repository?  Of course then, we'd be are increasing
> NFS traffic.

How is that increasing NFS traffic?  You're still doing exactly the same
operations, just in a different directory.  In any event, that would
only help if the problem were disk contention on the NFS server, which
it isn't.

-Larry Jones

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