[cvsnt] Dead cvs.exe processes

[Tony Hoyle]

Bo Berglund wrote:

> Possibly AntiVirus software? I don't have any AV on my CVS servers
> because they are not used on the console and the absence of AV lessens
> the chance of file system interference with CVSNT.
> 
In the past AV has been known to hold the connections open, so the 
process can't finish.. not heard of that for a while though (forget 
which AV did that one).

Of course realtime scanning on the server will make the processes take 
nearly forever...  That must be disabled or performance will totally suck.

Another biggie is things like Cruise Control, which if misconfigured 
starts multiple simultaneous checkouts, eats all the memory, so the 
server eventually grinds to a halt.

Once a server reaches overload it just progressively dies - that happens 
usually just after it starts going heavily into swap (true of all apps, 
but cvsnt is a big memory user so you have to be careful with it).

(The rule of thumb still holds... about 12-15mb/simultaneous user, and 
about enough disk space to hold a checked out sandbox * number of users).

Tony