[cvsnt] performence problem

[Stéphane Nicoll]

Tony,

From: Tony Hoyle <tmh at nodomain.org>

> Define 'slow' in this context...

> 30 simultaneous updates of 8000 files @8kb:

> 30*8000*8 = 1.875GB

>Over a 100MB network that's going to take a while (I calculate a worst 
>case of around 53 hours).

Ok I'll agree if they have to checkout the entire repository (around 8000 java source code files as I said). Now I have my 30 developpers with their local sandbox on the head. I am requesting 'cvs update -dP' on the sandbox. It won't lead to this traffic right?

At CVSNT implementation level, what is the difference between a checkout and an update by the way?

Regards,
Stéphane