[M3devel] tinderbox status improvements/diagnosis

[Jay K]

> I think the problem may be that birch is operating under high load
> (at least has done all the weekend), and my attempts to do complete
> cm3 build didn't alleviate the situation ;-)
>
> There's something weird going on, but unfortunately our system
> administration people are scarce currently due to holidays...

 
Could be me?, esp. my repeated Tinderbox runs, doing cvs checkout over and over?
No more than three concurrently and not in a loop, but stil..
Three: LINUXLIBC6, PPC_LINUX, SPARC32_LINUX.
I can try just one at a time.
 
And, I added -z3 to the checkout? Good/bad/other?
gzip is supposedly very non-taxing and I think -z3 is like gzip.
 
I've heard cvs is a cpu hog, it's one reason people switch away from it (which I hope we'll do after this release..)
 
I'll check about the cvs exit code.
 
A few times control-c-ed cvs and my birch ssh would show some errors on syslogd about cvs.
 
 - Jay