[Gllug] Sourceforge CVS

[Rich Walker]

Nix <nix at esperi.demon.co.uk> writes:

> On 17 Jun 2003, Rich Walker mused:
[snip]
> > I get this sometimes with anon. checkout. AFAICR there are some notes on
> > the sourceforge CVS to the effect that anon. checkout may be bumped in
> > favour of registered users when the system is busy. Try again in 30
> > seconds; if that doesn't work, keep trying.... 
> 
> No, that's not what they've done. The anonymous CVS is
> 
> 1) load-limited; if the load average on the server goes too high it
>    drops connections without connecting them to the CVS server

Okay

> 2) on the backup CVS box, so one day behind.

Well, that's not necessarily a grave problem for The Rest Of Us.
> 
> Plus it's deeply irritating.

This I don't understand. Elucidation, please?


cheers, Rich

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