On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Paul Burba <ptbu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Paul Burba <ptbu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Chris Tashjian <ct...@thepond.com> wrote: >>> I posted this on the users list, but I'm confident that this is a bug. >>> >>> Background: >>> For a while now (off and on for over a year, but more frequently in the last >>> 6+ months) we've been having problems with svn "crashing", yet there's no >>> error in the log file. In talking to someone the users list it sounds like >>> svn is actually just hanging. Clients get the following response: >>> >>> svn: Can't connect to host 'svn': No connection could be made >>> because the target machine actively refused it. >>> >>> Our repository has 129K revisions. The format is "4 layout linear", it was >>> created with svnadmin 1.4.x and has since had "svnadmin upgrade" run both in >>> 1.5 and 1.6. We're currently running SlikSVN 1.6.13 (Win32), but I have >>> previously had this problem dating back to versions of 1.5, both stock and >>> from CollabNet. The issue now happens numerous times per day and it looks >>> like I've discovered why.... >>> >>> >>> As a test I ran "svn blame -g" on a file with a bunch of revisions and >>> watched memory usage on the server spin up to 2GB. >> >> Chris, >> >> By a "bunch of revisions" what exactly do you mean? Many revisions >> which were the result of a merge? Or simply many changes made >> directly to the file (not the result of a merge)? >> >>> Paul - I'll see if I can get a test repo up with the error. In the >>> meantime, would a copy of the svn:mergeinfo help? >> >> Any luck? > > Chris, > > Don't sweat the replication effort too much, I think I'm on the trail > of this problem. Using a copy of the old (pre-ASF) Subversion > repository I'm seeing unexpectedly high memory use when using log -g > on a file with a "lot" of merge history: > > 1.6.13.client>svn blame ^/trunk/subversion/tests/cmdline/merge_tests.py > 25 MB Peak Working Set Memory svnserve.exe > > 1.6.13.client>svn blame ^/trunk/subversion/tests/cmdline/merge_tests.py -g > 291 MB Peak Working Set Memory svnserve.exe ^^^ That should have been 691 MB! Sorry!
> > More soon... > > Paul >
