[cvsnt] LockServer blues

[Morten Jøhnk]

Hi Tony (and anyone else)

We are running CVSNT 2.0.51d on both client and server and we are having problems with the lockserver. The server is a 2,8 GHz Xeon (with hyperthreading) running Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition.
No AV software. Pserver and SSPI connections

The LockServer sometimes starts to use a LOT of CPU power (reported as 50% since the CPU is hyperthreaded) and everything gets extremely slow. But there will be progress (a tag operation finished after 43 hours this weekend - when everything is ok, the same operation finishes in 5-10 minutes)

The problem seems to be triggered when several branch/tag operations are running at the same time.

My questions are:

  1) Is this a known bug?
  2) Is it fixed in newer versions of cvsnt?
  3) Is there any information I can get you to help you find out what is happening
  4) I think I have heard that you can telnet to the lockserver to get some status info about what is happening - hoe to do that and what should I look for in the output?
  5) Any other ways to get info about the lockservers behaviour?

I hope you can give me some clues as is a very big problem for us

Regards

Morten Jøhnk