Re: WinCVS slow startup

At 12:56 PM 2/20/2007, Bo Berglund wrote:
>On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 08:48:28 -0500, John Deighan <[email protected]>
>wrote:
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> >We have 5 production servers running WinCVS.
>Wrong, WinCvs is NOT a CVS *server*, it is a client so you must be
>having a CVS server somewhere, which you do not mention.

Perhaps, next time, you should read the e-mail over until you 
understand it. I said "we have 5 production servers running WinCVS". 
There is nothing in that sentence that implies that WinCVS is a 
server. And, yet, obviously, we have a CVS server running somewhere. 
If it's relevant, I'll be glad to find out what version of CVS Server 
it's running. I can tell you with certainty that it's a version of CVSNT.

> > On 4 of them, it takes
> >15 seconds or so for WinCVS to start up. On the other one, it takes
> >around 1/2 hour - yes, that's 30 minutes, sometimes more, for WinCVS
> >to start up.
>
>Again, sionce this is WinCvs acting as a *client* it is *not* a server
>problem. My guess is that the last time you used WinCvs you had it
>pointed to a top level folder in your checked out file tree and you
>had set "flat view" on. It is a known issue that WinCvs will scan the
>current dir on startup for the CVS related metadata and if in flat
>view it may be thousands of such metadata files to read.
>Fortunately, the ESC key should bring you out of the loop.

Thanks. I'll check if that is the problem

> >Where do I start trying to track down this problem? My
> >guess is that WinCVS is spending time trying to discover what file
> >systems are available and what their structure is. But, that's only a
> >guess. The startup logo is gone for most of this time, and there's
> >just a blank window with the title bar grayed out. Any clues?
>
>If you have your checked out files on network shares then the case
>becomes even worse because the network file accesses are extremely
>slow....
>
>HTH
>
>/Bo
>(Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)
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