[cvsnt] Re: Extremely slow remote CVSNT access

[Tony Hoyle]

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 11:37:22 +0200, "Joost van der Plas"
<joost.cvsnt at musigma.nl> wrote:

>A fresh install of CVSNT  2.0.9 on a 800MHz Win2000 notebook. The repository
>root and temp are on a local NTFS partition. Only a small TEST repository
>(20 files)
>Trying to access this from remote Win NT4 machines on the LAN (400MHz,
>256MB), using :sspi: protocol.
>Response is extremely slow! 20 seconds for a simple "cvs ls" command. While
>waiting I monitor the task manager on the server and  the client and keep an
>eye on the LAN switch (100Mb ethernet): no CPU load, no harddisk thrashing,
>not out of memory,  no LAN traffic. If I keep repeating the ls command
>SOMEtimes the response comes within 4 seconds, but most of the  time 16-20
>seconds.
>On the local machine, using sspi protocol the response is almost
>instantaneous.
>
Your Reverse DNS is probably broken.  Try checking 'Don't resolve
client names' on the control panel and see if that fixes it
temporarily, then have a word with your admin about getting the
Reverse DNS fixed properly.

Tony