My machine is on a Public School system network, behind a firewall. I
wonder whether this is affecting the merging process. I'm not
knowledgeable enough about networking to understand how the firewall
works, what it affects.
When emerging a package, often the process starts, runs for a short
while, then stalls out. If I restart it (kill it and rerun the same
command) the same thing goes on---I get maybe another 10, 20, or even
50MB, then the process stalls again. Sometimes, afterhours, when
everyone is gone, I can restart a stalled process, and it starts and
finishes immediately, even if it a 10+MB file that is involved.
Can someone suggest to me what this suggests, in terms of firewall
activity? I have heard remarks about the quality of the firewall.
Could it be a router? I saw some mention of routers not allowing
certain kinds of requests or certain numbers of requests.
I don't intend to swamp this system. It's pretty dismal anyway, but I
wonder what's happening. Maybe I can point something out to the
sysops.
Alan Davis
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