Manuel Giraud <[email protected]> writes:

> Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> On 2026-07-27, Manuel Giraud <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Everyday around noon, I'm updating /usr/src, /usr/xenocara and
>>> /usr/ports with a "cvs up" from the mirror:
>>> [email protected]:/cvs
>>>
>>> This update takes up to one hour but more worrying is that in the
>>> meantime, the machine is barely usable.  I guess that this is mostly due
>>> to IO but I don't know how to debug this.
>>
>> things that might be useful:
>> - mounting the relevant filesystems 'noatime'
>
> Thanks, I'll try that.  But I think my real issue was that I was running
> this through a ssh tunnel via another machine.  Removing this I get the
> following:
>
> $ export CVSROOT="[email protected]:/cvs"
> $ cd /usr/ports
> $ time cvs -q up
> ...
>    22m41.71s real     0m46.03s user     3m52.68s system

Sorry I forgot to say that I have this in my ~/.cvsrc:

diff -uNp
update -Pd -A
checkout -P
-- 
Manuel Giraud

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