Overloaded cvs server

Geoff Keating geoffk@geoffk.org
Fri Apr 6 13:52:00 GMT 2001


> Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 13:09:33 +0100 (BST)
> From: Bo Thorsen <bo@sonofthor.dk>
> 
> Am I the only one getting a lot of problems from the cvs server:
> 
> bo@idefix /work/binutils/src> cvs -z9 update
> Fatal error, aborting.
> load average of 42 is too high
> 
> I have a patch I need to send but that's not really possible right now :-(
> 
> Just for the record: Using other cvs servers works fine from this machine.
> Only the binutils one (anoncvs) is a problem.

It's because the machine really is overloaded.  If you wait for a bit
and try again (I would recommend _not_ using -z9 because of the high
load that places on the server) that should help.

-- 
- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>



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