Re: CVS slow and TCP Compression

[Larry Jones]

Scott Willy writes:
> 
> Another observacation we had, was that when doing a checkout we would get
> tons of Ethernet collisions on the LAN. This was true for both the Solaris
> server we have in production and the Cube we were testing. This was true
> even if we only had cvs server and one client on the LAN.

That is almost certainly the root of your problem.  My guess would be
that you have one or more devices on your ethernet that are erroneously
running in full duplex mode when they should be running in half duplex
instead.

-Larry Jones

Another casualty of applied metaphysics. -- Hobbes