[cvsnt] Re: Repository TAG behavior

[Randy McCharles]

It is possible we experienced time-outs under the same circumstances as you. Our time-outs occurred during our build process: check-out, build, commit, tag. Our Windows & Mac builds occur simultaneously on 2 different clients, operating on common repository modules. Both clients tag the repository. There is some overlap during the check-out, commit, & tag steps, but we only ever saw time-outs on tag. There is no way to verify that the conflicts occurred at the file or directory level. Our tagging is by module, which are quite large. (The majority of our files are split between 3 modules.) I am not sure of the "atomic" consequences of tagging a module. However the time-out actually occurs, the cause was the large binaries as the problem went away when I removed them.

Randy McCharles

SMART Technologies Inc.

Senior Software Developer

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-----Original Message-----
From: cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org [mailto:cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org]On Behalf
Of Michael Wojcik
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 7:43 AM
To: cvsnt at cvsnt.org
Subject: RE: [cvsnt] Re: Repository TAG behavior


> From: cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org 
> [mailto:cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org] On Behalf Of Randy McCharles
> Sent: Monday, 06 February, 2006 17:34
> 
> 
> I have seen this before and the cause appeared to be some 
> very large binary files that were put under source control. 
> cvsnt appears to spend an inordinate amount of time tagging 
> these large files, which I suspect the only requirement is to 
> add a couple of lines of RCS text to the top of the file.

Sure, that's why tag takes long enough for separate operations to
overlap, but my point is that it shouldn't be getting any locking
collisions regardless; these are tag operations on different files,
indeed on different directories in the repository.

*That* is the problem in our situation.

-- 
Michael Wojcik
Principal Software Systems Developer, Micro Focus
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