Re: [Cvs-syncmail] Coping with a slow SMTP server

[Barry W. <ba...@py...>]

On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 13:35, A.M. Kuchling wrote:
> (*Why* 
> is the SMTP server slow? 
> Good question, and one I'll look into, but the server is running 
> Sendmail so I don't expect fixing the problem to be easy.)

The most common reason for similar behavior in the Mailman world is
Sendmail being set up to verify recipient addresses upon receipt of the
message from localhost.

> A work-around would be fine for now.  blast_mail() in syncmail already 
> does a fork(), but the CVS server still waits
> for the message to be sent; is there some way to make CVS return 
> immediately while the message is sent in the background?
> Any other suggestions for making the commit run faster?

Maybe I'm too clouded by doing everything on SF, but cvs has always just
been so dog slow for me, I probably wouldn't notice much if it were
different.

One of the biggest PITAs about cvs is getting all the locking working. 
IIRC, blast_mail() is very sensitive to - and finely balanced against -
deadlocking cvs.

-Barry