On 2021-05-02 16:32, Anders Magnusson wrote:
Den 2021-05-02 kl. 15:57, skrev Johnny Billquist:
On 2021-05-02 13:51, Anders Magnusson wrote:
Den 2021-05-02 kl. 13:44, skrev Johnny Billquist:
I suspect what is commonly the problem here is related to the fact
that cvs has such a phase at the beginning where it is scanning
through the file system, which can take quite a while. Some NAT
devices along the path sometimes have timeouts on existing
connections that if no traffic is happening for a while, they are
dropped, even though there hasn't been any FINs on the connection.
So a connection that just don't have any traffic for a while are hit
by this, which is exactly the pattern you have with cvs.
I've seen the same effect on a simple telnet session, where ssh
survives fine. And there it's just that when the connection is idle,
telnet is not creating any traffic at all, while ssh do generate a
bit of traffic even if there is no activity.
So one obvious solution is to use something like ssh as a carries
for the cvs traffic, if possible, or else see if some kind of
keepalives can be enabled on a connection, to defeat NAT and similar
devices which aggressively drop connections on which there is no
traffic for a while.
(Or, of course, if there is a NAT you have control over, you might
be able to change how it behaves...)
This is quite common, yes.
I ususlly add ssh keepalive to ssh_config for all hosts to avoid this
problem (which may occur, as written, when doing cvs update).
And as a "fun" fact. On my 4000/90, it takes about 3h after I start a
cvs update until I actually start having any network traffic... In
total it takes something like 8h to do a cvs update on /usr/src.
(I guess I'm a bit masochistic is still insisting on trying to do
things on my VAXen...)
Have you tried it on the 8650? :-)
Last time I did manage, I think it was close to a day. That with RA73
drives. But you know there's been problems with having two unibuses
lately, and so on. So it's been quite a while since I actually managed
to much of anything natively on that machine. :-(
Another reason I'd like to get gcc working native again. Also trying to
get a chance to fix things on the 8650. Not sure how much longer we will
be able to keep that machine around ready to run. We might need to
shrink our locales soon...
Johnny
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