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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 16:12:45 -0400
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Subject: Re: CVS error
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In-Reply-To: <20000722142234.L2260@OLMY>; from Jason.Tishler@dothill.com on Sat, Jul 22, 2000 at 02:22:34PM -0400

On Sat, Jul 22, 2000 at 02:22:34PM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote:
>Should I expect to get the following error:
>
>    $ cvs update
>    Fatal error, aborting.
>    load average of 17 is too high
>
>from time to time?  Or, is the machine serving CVS having some problems?

I've never gotten an error like this from CVS.

I don't know if the machine is having problems but possibly the load average
goes up when mirrors start downloading stuff.

cgf