How can I check whether cvs2git is still running?

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I have trigged off cvs to git migration with cvs2svn (cvs2git) for 4 days. My repository has a size of 12 GB and it is still in pass 7.

pass 1: 66238 sec
pass 2: 29.96 sec
pass 3: 6.745 sec
pass 4: 106343 sec
pass 5: 2080 sec
pass 6: 3955 sec

So pass 1 - 6 have taken ca. 49,6 hours and pass 7 is still in progress for 48 hours without any error message. I don't know whether anything does happen or it has hung up.

Is this a regular behavior of cvs2git? What can I do? Is there any possibility to check whether everything is ok?

Use `top` to see which processes are consuming resources. If cvs2svn is eating up memory / cpu then it's likely that it's still working. — Mathew, Jul 23 '13 at 21:07

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Jul 24 '13 at 05:16

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You can use ps awx | grep cvs.

This way you can also see the PROCESS STATE CODES.

You can use man ps in order to understand the PROCESS STATE CODES.

edited Jul 24 '13 at 05:16

Thirumalai murugan

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answered Jul 24 '13 at 04:54

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 02 '14 at 17:58

With the command top you can see the processes which use most of the cpu.
And also the load of the system (uptime) is an indicator that your system is doing hard work.
Last but not least, you can use find -mmin -3600 to check if there are any files which were recently changed (in this example: modified in the last hour).

Btw: we also had a huge repository. a lot of its size came from third-party libraries. Finally, I explicitly excluded them from conversion and put them into a separate repository (submodule). Git seems to need a lot of memory for working with big binary files.

How can I check whether cvs2git is still running?

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