[NCLUG] CVS Auto update of web pages?

[R P Herrold]

On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Sean Reifschneider wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 01:54:32PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> >No, it means the results of the second commit may be delayed up to 3 minutes.
> >It's a sleeping lock.  Something we can all live with, I think.
> 
> That wouldn't seem to me that it would be a help to prevent a DoS then...
> Sure, somebody couldn't cause the CVS server to get hammered, but they
> could cause tons of processes to get used up and delay legitimate e-mail
> delivery.

... and at that point, in tracking down the load, you cut over 
to a semaphore based collection and distribution of release. 
<smile>

-- Russ