[Savannah-hackers] System load and I/O on Savannah : cvs pserver is guilty

[Loic Dachary]

        Hi,

        Most definitely, cvs pserver for anoncvs is guilty of
charge. The amazing thing is that ~10 cvs pserver processes generate
around 2MB/s of continuous write on disk, just to manage the locks. I
knew cvs was rather enefficient but this is ... well :-). I'm not sure
if there exists a patch to improve the situation. Given the likelyhood
of a lock conflict, I'd be tempted to have cvs pserver not generate
any locks when operating under anoncvs, but that seems a bit
extreme. I guess people ran into this performance problem before and
figured out a solution. I'll investigate tomorrow. In the meantime I'd
appreciate any kind of tip.

        Cheers,

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