Re: problem report & fix

[Larry Jones]

Michal Moskal writes:
> 
> After some investigation I found, that it's becouse of async buffers in
> cvs. When you do cvs up and press ctrl-z you might note that pserver
> process reads all the files to ram (it grows until it gets to the size
> of repo). This is actually how async buffer behaves, if it cannot write,
> it buffers :) But I guess there should be some limit placed on it.

There is -- see all the code inside #ifdef SERVER_FLOWCONTROL,
particularly server_pause_check() in server.c, which is called from
do_recursion() in recurse.c.  In short, that code should prevent ever
buffering up more than about 2 MB plus the size of the largest file.

-Larry Jones

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