[cvsnt] Re: TortoiseCVS delays

[Aidan Corey]

Tony,

> Al Williams wrote:
> > I'm using the Tortoise CVS shell and it seems to take 
> > several seconds for
> > each command to execute - is that normal?  Are other protocols (like
> > pserver) faster?
> > 
> Over a LAN it should be close to instant unless you're 
> committing a large number of
> files.
> 
> It could be that your reverse DNS is having 
> trouble/misconfigured.  Try checking 'Don't
> resolve client names' in the cvsnt control panel and see if 
> that helps things.

I've been having a similar issue in a similar environment (XP and 2000,
SSPI, LAN, etc.).  My server is CVSNT 2.0.18 (lockserver enabled in
CVSROOT/config) and the problem occurs with TortoiseCVS 1.6.x and 1.7.0
(I've changed 1.7.0 to use the CVSNT 2.0.35 binaries).

For a particular file, executing "cvs editors" takes TortoiseCVS about
3s.  On the commandline CVSNT takes under 1s, using the same switches.

I tried disabling client name lookups on the server and restarting the
services.  The commandline seemed marginally more responsive but
TortoiseCVS wasn't detectably faster.  Certainly our reverse DNS is
broken; unfortunately I don't have control over that.

The other unusual 'feature' of our environment is that sandboxes are on
network drives (management policy).  However, performance is the same
with a local sandbox.

This evidence seems to suggest a TortoiseCVS problem.  Can anyone
suggest any further tests to help narrow it down?

Aidan