Re: Upstream cvs repository corruption?

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@sourceware.org>]

On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 05:06:37PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
>Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@sourceware.org> wrote:
>>I was trying to find out what that should actually be.  There is no
>>need to rationalize the need.  I just want to figure out how this
>>should actually be set up.  And, I thought that if we chose another
>>account with different access rights it might actually solve the
>>problem.
>
>Chris,
>
From the tone of your messages, I fear I may have done something to
>offend you.  If so, please rest assured that whatever I did was not
>intended to rustle any feathers.

Please reread the above without any preconceptions about tone.  I'm not
"offended".  I want to solve a problem.

Here is my point:

SER       PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
root     20017  0.0  0.0  6444 2688 ?        Ss   12:43   0:00 sshd: meyering@pts/0
meyering 20021  0.0  0.0  6768 2048 pts/0    Ss+  12:43   0:00 -zsh
meyering 20335  0.0  0.0  2184  884 ?        Ss   12:45   0:00 /bin/sh /home/meyering/bin/mirror-sw lvm
meyering 20343  0.0  0.0  2484  916 ?        S    12:45   0:00 /bin/sh /home/meyering/bin/mirror-cvs-to-git --rsync-url=/cvs/lvm2 --module=LVM2 --git-dir=/home/meyering/mirror-git-to-cvs/repo/LVM2 --state-dir=/home/meyering/mirror-git-to-cvs/.state/LVM2 --key-file=tools/lvm.c,v --user-map=/home/meyering/mirror-git-to-cvs/git-user-map/LVM2
meyering 20436  0.0  0.0  6908 5068 ?        S    12:45   0:00 /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/local/bin/git-cvsimport -A /home/meyering/mirror-git-to-cvs/.state/LVM2/user-map -d /home/meyering/mirror-git-to-cvs/.state/LVM2/cvsrepo/LVM2 -C /home/meyering/mirror-git-to-cvs/repo/LVM2 -p -z,120 LVM2
meyering 20466  0.0  0.0  2712  672 ?        S    12:45   0:00 cvs server
meyering 20472  0.0  0.0  6576 4364 ?        S    12:45   0:00 cvsps --norc -q -z 120 --cvs-direct -u -A --root /home/meyering/mirror-git-to-cvs/.state/LVM2/cvsrepo/LVM2 LVM2
meyering 20473  0.0  0.0  3664  900 ?        S    12:45   0:00 cvs server

Those processes have been running since 8:43AM EDT.  If we are going to
support git on sourceware, should we expect to see this type of thing on
a regular basis?  And, given the original email, which contained a
problem, is there some other way that git could be run to avoid the
problem?

I run a script on a regular basis which kills what seems to be hung
processes on sourceware.  I very nearly killed similar processes this
weekend.  I want to find out if I have to ignore these type of processes
in the future or if there is a better way to handle this so that it
doesn't look like user "meyering" (or some other git user) has lots of
long-running processes.

cgf