On 08.02.2011 23:57, Branko Čibej wrote: > On 08.02.2011 23:47, Stefan Sperling wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 11:37:16PM +0100, Branko Čibej wrote: >>> On 08.02.2011 18:13, Hyrum K Wright wrote: >>>> It shouldn't be difficult to create a large working copy ('svn co >>>> ^/subversion') and use that for testing, but getting more insight than >>>> just our own dataset would be very nice. >>> Except that, as I noted elsewhere in this thread, even 'svn co >>> ^/subversion/tags' get the (current trunk) svn process up to 2.5 gigs >>> before the whole thing falls down, and it takes forever to do that. I'd >>> say that's another release blocker. >> Is this perchance due to the known serf memory leaks which were >> fixed in serf 0.7.1? > Well, I just now updated my trunk working copy and had to go install a > newer serf to get it to build (and incidentally ran afoul of the diff > bug mentioned elsewhere, it truncated a couple files, most unpleasant). > > I'll try a smaller checkout (just tags/ebcdic, which also failed by > itself before) and report.
Using Serf 0.7.1 definitely helps, the checkout of ^/subversion/tags/ebcdic was now successful, took 19 minutes and got svn memory usage up to 360MB. I'm not too happy about the last two points, but at least it works. -- Brane