Tony,
Is your recommended build version(>57g) only
important for the cvs nt server or is also important
to upgrade clients, eg. Tortoise or WinCVS
to get the speed enhancement?
BR
Ingerun
> On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 17:48:01 -0800, "Ilya Haykinson"
> <ilya at skematix.com> wrote:
>
> >we recently transitioned from a Linux-based CVS server to CVSNT.
> >
> >The Linux box was a slow Pentium II with almost no RAM, and the
Windows box
> >is a good P-III with a much faster hard drive and much more RAM.
Both are on
> >the same network connection. Yet, with CVSNT we're getting much
much worse
> >performance doing checkouts, commits etc.
> >
> >We're using :sspi: more instead of :pserver: that we used with
Linux -- but
> >that should be just authentication...
> >
> >Are there known issues with CVSNT that would make it significantly
slower
> >than cvs on Linux on an inferior machine?
> >
> Unix is faster at running cvs, because of the way it does things.
On
> a same spec machine I'd expect the Linux machine to be about 10-20%
> faster (the cvsnt.org cvs server feels faster than the same
repository
> under NT, even though they're the same code & data).
>
> However a well specced NT machine *should* be faster than a slow
Linux
> machine, by quite a large margin.
>
> For optimal speed your repository must be on the same machine as the
> server, and there should be good communication between the PDC and
the
> server machine (which speeds up initial authentication).
>
> Make sure your reverse DNS is working. If it isn't you'll get a
delay
> before anything happens.
>
> Use a recent build (there were a couple of speedups around the 57g
> time), and enable the LockServer, which is faster than the LockDir
> options, and allows multiple simultaneous checkouts.
>
> Tony
>
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