On Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 10:52:52PM -0700, a little birdie told me that John Polstra remarked > > Also, try the "-s" option. (Read about it first in cvsup(1).) It > greatly reduces disk activity and will make your updates go faster, > possibly with snappier GUI updates too.
Damn, I should RTFM more often ;) I could definately like this. > The GUI performance varies widely between systems. It was so-so > on my old P/90, but it's pretty good on my PII/400. It may be the > disk activity that kills the GUI performance. Disk operations are > non-interruptible, so if the disk is really busy the GUI thread > doesn't get control often enough. (I'm guessing and could be totally > wrong, though.) As a data point, CVSup runs nicely, but if I iconify it and deiconify it, it takes about forEVER (maybe 10, 15 seconds on a PPro 180) to redisplay itself completely. Sucking down CVS repo to /usr/cvs (async, noatime). Under 2.2-S, mind you. --- *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | Matthew Fuller http://www.over-yonder.net/ | * fulle...@futuresouth.com fulle...@over-yonder.net * | UNIX Systems Administrator Specializing in FreeBSD | * FutureSouth Communications ISPHelp ISP Consulting * | "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, | * is because I haven't figured out how to light the * | middle yet" | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
