Re: server flow control option / my sig 11 problem last month

[Andy Jones]

Thanks for the explanations.

>I would have thought the first sentence made that clear:

::grin:: it did, but later sentences made it less clear...

>As far as I remember, the concensus was that you had run out of
>(virtual) memory on the server machine.  CVS does its best to detect
>that condition and report it, but there are circumstances were it is
>simply impossible to do so.

So it would appear that I had flow control turned on and it did not help?

My (ignorant) reading of the flow control description in INSTALL suggested that 
it might stop a memory overrun.
Does that mean that there are circumstances where flow control doesn't?