From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 427 invoked by alias); 8 Jan 2010 13:13:17 -0000 Received: (qmail 380 invoked by uid 22791); 8 Jan 2010 13:13:16 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:13:09 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C747B2BABC1; Fri, 8 Jan 2010 08:13:07 -0500 (EST) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id vf6TcG2ZmzXb; Fri, 8 Jan 2010 08:13:07 -0500 (EST) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 571A72BAB26; Fri, 8 Jan 2010 08:13:07 -0500 (EST) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 83FC3F595E; Fri, 8 Jan 2010 17:12:58 +0400 (RET) Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:13:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Phil Muldoon Cc: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: time to be serious about dropping CVS Message-ID: <20100108131258.GO4623@adacore.com> References: <20100101080137.GP2788@adacore.com> <4B472BDC.1030301@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B472BDC.1030301@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2010-01/txt/msg00063.txt.bz2 > I don't know why CVS is so slow. Whether it is CPU bound on the > sourceware machine, or the bandwidth at the hosting site is at > capacity .. who knows? I'm not even sure how to find out. But would > SVN solve any of the problem relating to performance? My observations on SVN is that it is a huge I/O hog. I don't know what it's doing, and how it encodes it's meta data, but you definitely feel it when your home directory is not on a local hard drive. -- Joel