CVS error

[Chris Faylor]

On Sat, Jul 22, 2000 at 02:22:34PM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote:
>Should I expect to get the following error:
>
>    $ cvs update
>    Fatal error, aborting.
>    load average of 17 is too high
>
>from time to time?  Or, is the machine serving CVS having some problems?

I've never gotten an error like this from CVS.

I don't know if the machine is having problems but possibly the load average
goes up when mirrors start downloading stuff.

cgf