On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 10:35:06AM -0800, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
> 
> Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com> writes:
> > I am frankly baffled by this sudden outbreak of obnoxious behaviour
> > among the users of the anoncvs service!
> 
> A few years ago before I had this quiet disk in the main machine I'd
> occasionally hear the machine-gun noise of a disk under heavy load.  I
> eventually tracked it down to the httpd server and some rude people
> running something called "netants" which would open up dozens of
> connections in parallel.  Watching the log file for "NetAnts" and
> slapping an IP filter on for that address quieted things down
> immensely.
> 
> Hopefully nobody has written a multithreaded cvs client along the same
> lines...

Just do
cd /usr/pkgsrc
foreach i (*)
cvs up -dPA $i &
end

And you have a multithreaded CVS client :)

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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