[lug] SSH CVS slow on FAT partition

[Glenn Murray]

Thanks for the reply.  I am running a 2.2 kernel, but now I see my CPU
usage is 0% while this is happening; this makes me think the problem
is on the server side.

Glenn Murray
www.mines.edu/~glenn/public_html/Welcome.html

On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, John Hernandez wrote:
> Are you running a newer kernel?  I've seen mention of FAT filesystem performance enhancements in the kernel archives.  It may be worth a shot.
> 
> Glenn Murray wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I'm using ssh to connect to a CVS repository.  I run "cvs update ."
> > and it takes 17 seconds under Windoze cygwin, but under Linux it takes
> > a long, long time: it's currently taking over 30 minutes.
> > 
> > The working directory is in a Win2K Fat partition, which seems to be
> > the source of the problem.  When I update to my Linux partition it
> > is snappy.  Just updating a few text files on the Win2K partition
> > takes many seconds.
> > 
> > What could be the cause of this?  I have a hard time believing it is
> > because of end-of-line conversion.
> > 
> > I am running
> > SSH Version OpenSSH_2.3.0p1, protocol versions 1.5/2.0.
> > The server with the repository is running
> > SSH Secure Shell 2.4.0 (non-commercial version) on powerpc-ibm-aix4.3.3.0