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Re: Automake CVS: load average is too high
On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 17:13, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Could anybody please check what's going on with Automake CVS? If I'm
> using anonymous CVS (:pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.cygnus.com:/cvs/automake) it
> almost always fails:
>
> $ cvs up
> Fatal error, aborting.
> load average of 25 is too high
>
> The number varies from 15 to 25. My guess is that there are runaway
> processes (CPU hogs) on the anoncvs.cygnus.com. Old versions of CVS can
> create such processes on "cvs log -r," or something like that (I don't
> want to check it).
My guess is that gcc is at fault; it turns out that anoncvs.cygnus.com
and gcc.gnu.org are one and the same machine, and gcc recently had the
3.0.4 release. I assume many people are still connecting to get that
release.
> Since the CVS server doesn't reply to "cvs version", I assume it's old.
Indeed - it doesn't even support the -C flag to update (though I don't
know what cvs version added it).