time to be serious about dropping CVS

[Joel Brobecker]

> I don't know why CVS is so slow.  Whether it is CPU bound on the
> sourceware machine, or the bandwidth at the hosting site is at
> capacity .. who knows?  I'm not even sure how to find out.  But would
> SVN solve any of the problem relating to performance?

My observations on SVN is that it is a huge I/O hog. I don't know
what it's doing, and how it encodes it's meta data, but you definitely
feel it when your home directory is not on a local hard drive.

-- 
Joel