From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 24 17:34:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C436D15362 for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 17:34:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12Ct81-000Aqn-00; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 23:42:37 +0000 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12Ct81-0001aF-00; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 23:42:37 +0000 Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 23:42:37 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: Len Conrad Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvsup: what's the progress look like? Message-ID: <20000124234237.B5829@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <4.2.2.20000124221320.02b7dc50@mail.Go2France.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000124221320.02b7dc50@mail.Go2France.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Len Conrad wrote: > Ping from my 3.1 machine to cvsup.de.FreeBSD.org is about 30 ms. > > my "cvsup script" runs, I get a couple of checkout lines, and then > "apparently" nothing. no disk light, no console movement. > > How long does this take? When to decide to bail out? IME, cvsup never sits there doing nothing. There's nearly always some disk activity when running cvsup. What is it doing at this time? I'm guessing it's blocked somewhere, ``ps axl | grep cvsup'' may help to find the problem. Have you tried other cvsup servers? -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message