[cvsnt] Re: CVSNT 2.0.58d CPU performance problems and the lockserver

[Victor A. Wagner Jr.]

At 01:02 2005-05-25, Stéphane Nicoll wrote:
>Why do I have the feeling that this problem is being ignored by the CVSNT 
>guru(s)?

likely they cannot reproduce it.  I can't (of course I quit using 2.0.58 
some time ago, I'm using 2.5.01 build 1927 right now). but I don't recall 
ever seeing it happen either.



>-----Original Message-----
>From: Stéphane Nicoll
>Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 12:10 PM
>To: 'cvsnt at cvsnt.org'
>Subject: [cvsnt] Re: CVSNT 2.0.58d CPU performance problems and the lockserver
>
>
>Hello list,
>
>Edward Patterson wrote:
> >    We are currently running into performance issues with CVSNT. Even
> > with the AV turned off on the repository directory and the reverse DNS
> > lookup disabled the performance hit after 4 or more cvs.exe processes
> > run on the server the CPU is pegged at close to 98 to 100%. WE tried
> > upgrading to a better machine with a dual, multi-threaded Pentium 4
> > processor. With up to 10 cvs.exe processes running on the machine the
> > CPU is at 85% but the majority of the CPU is held up by the lockserver
> > process. I find it hard to believe that CVSNT server can only support
> > less then 10 concurrent users at one time. I have scoured the internet
> > for possible performance issues but there is not much out there.
> > Anyone else running into this issue? Any help would be greatly
> > appreciated, thanks
>
>
>I've seen this thread and we do have the same problem running CVSNT 
>2.0.51d. AV is not the issue here since we monitor disk activites and idle 
>time is almost 100%. The locking service is consuming 50% with an HT 
>processor (I assume it's 100% in this case). A single checkout is *very* 
>slow (only one CVS session).
>
>So what's wrong here? Upgrading is not an option: last time I tried, some 
>files from our repository dissapeared.

you don't back your repository?
I suggest that if "some files from our repository disappeared" that it had 
nothing to do with the upgrade.


>Thanks,
>Stéphane
>
>
>
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