Some problems on Savannah

Today at about 5pm GMT Savannah became very loaded all of a sudden. 
looking at the number of running processes, there is an impressively 
high number of CVS processes running and some of them have been around 
for hours so it looks like there are problems with cvs processes hanging.

As a side not I noticed that /cvsroot resides on the / filesystem where 
there is only 400 MB of free space. This is not much. In addition cvs 
often uses *a lot* of temporary storage space especially for commits and 
by default it uses /tmp which also resides on the / file system.

I guess a /home/large_tmp or /audio-video/large_tmp should be created 
and then use the -T argument of cvs to specify the new cvs temp 
directory. Shouldn't the /cvsroot dir be moved to /audio-video as well 
by the way?

Another thing: each time I run the top command or ps, I have a bunch of 
"Internal Error!" messages showing on the screen which is quite strange. 
   is it possible that the ps and top command versions are not in sync 
with  /proc

LAurent