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kdea at alpine-la.com wrote: > Hello, > > I have cvsnt 2.0.38 on Win2K server. The server is a 3.0 GHz P4 with 512 > MB of RAM. My users, and there aren't many (less than 20 people), > routinely complain to me that it is slow to update their projects on cvs. > When I check the machine, I sometimes see several instances of cvslock.exe > or one instance using up 100% of the CPU. I need to shut off the service > and restart it, to get the box working at a normal clip again. I admit, > I'm not too familiar with the practical usage of cvs, I just manage the > box. This is also probably not enough information for anyone to know what > is going on. What should I be looking for? The box does not do anything > else but be a software repository. > There should only ever be one instance of cvslock.exe, and that's started by the OS on boot - find out what's starting multiple ones and you'll probably be well on the way to finding the problem I suspect. As for the CPU usage I've never encountered this & suspect AV/Firewall interference somewhere (but can't prove it). Tony