[cvsnt] Can cvsnt go faster?

[Gerhard Fiedler]

Dan wrote:

> Hi, I figured it out, I found the files that were being written to by
> doing a find / -cmin 1   During an update. Turns out cvs writes a copy
> of every file to /tmp/ 
> 
> So I made a tmpfs ramdrive for cvs with: mount -t ramfs none /cvstmp 
> 
> And an update went from 5 minutes to less then 30 seconds. I'm pretty
> happy now, but does cvs really have to write a copy of every file being
> updated to /tmp/ ?

Isn't that something that usually should get handled by the system cache
for the drive? What's the difference in this case between the use of a
ramdrive and the use of a similar-sized cache for a harddisk?

Gerhard