Re: [gtk-list] Re: [gimp-devel] CVS, Is it broken? (fwd)

[Marc van Kempen <marc bowtie nl>]

> On Fri, 7 Nov 1997, Maddog(tm) Abel wrote:
> 
> > Yeap.... I tried "cvs login" several days ago and failed... said that
> > anonymous user doesn't exist. Any problem out there?
> 
> anonymous access has been disabled.  This is due to the CVS server having
> used 33% of its T1's bandwidth (it is not a dedicated T1 either :). I'm
> guessing this is probably caused by: 
> 
> 	- People who don't use -z9 on their connections.
> 	- People who continually checkout things instead of
> 	  just updating.
> 
> Until we have some good way of making sure that people do things right,
> no anonCVS, I guess.
> 
May I suggest the following link:

http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook240.html#508

CVSup was conceived to reduce the load on the FreeBSD source
servers (if I remember correctly)

Regards,
Marc.
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