[cvsnt] Sudden degrade in checkout performance

[Tony Hoyle]

Ian Long wrote:
> On my Linux test machine (Red Hat) the time taken to checkout a module has 
> recently changed from around 1minute to ~12 hours (it has never run to 
> completion yet).

Have you recently installed/upgraded any antivirus?  'realtime scanning' 
can cause massive slowdowns (although your slowdown seems extreme even 
for an AV).

I'd also check the hard drives aren't failing & causing a lot of retries.

Tony