Re: Some problems on Savannah

Laurent Julliard writes:
 > 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.

	I'm investigating this. 

 > 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'm mounting a 10GB partition for /cvsroot. That will remove this
load from the / partition. 

 > 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?

	The problem is that there are subtle bugs when using a separate
LockDir (which is the case of all projects) on repositories with symbolic
links in them (which is why cvsroot was moved to / in the first place).

 > 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

	This is because ps was not recompiled with the N_GROUP_MAX fix.
It is harmless.

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