How can I check whether cvs2git is still running?

Question

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?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

• 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.