[cvsnt] timeouts and temp directory

[Bo Berglund]

On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 07:31:48 -0400, bwhicks at aep.com wrote:

>"Flávio Etrusco" <flavio.etrusco at gmail.com> wrote on 03/09/2007 05:09:46 
>PM:
>
>> You should try removing the antivirus completely (or at least disable
>> on-access scan) from the server and see whether the persists.
>
>I'll try totally disabling the AV and see if it helps, even though it will 
>be pretty much impossible to get that sort of configuration approved in 
>production...
> 
>> CruiseControl used to run "cvs rlog" after each commit, so it incurred
>> in very bad cvs performance, but I'm not aware of other problems.
>
>I think newer versions do rlog after commits, but the older version our 
>devs are running does a "cvs log" in a checked out workspace something 
>like every 5-10 minutes to see if anything has changed. Yes, this is 
>EXTREMELY detrimental to performance. But it seems to work ok in our linux 
>environment and times out in Windows. Again, it could be AV, so I'll try 
>disabling it, but after that I'm stumped...
>

Depending on AV type sometimes disabling scanning etc does not stop it
from interfering with disk accesses anyway.
The only way then is to uninstall the AV and restart the PC.
Possibly you can find the AV in the services list and stop the service
and set it to start manually.

HTH

/Bo
(Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)