On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 04:25, Philip Martin <philip.mar...@wandisco.com> wrote: > Konstantin Kolinko <knst.koli...@gmail.com> writes: > >> 2012/1/5 Stefan Küng <tortoise...@gmail.com>: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Due to a report on the TSVN mailing list I found that the CL client has the >>> same problem: >>> 'svn list' takes forever in some situations. >>> I don't know what the problem exactly is, but it's easily reproducable: >>> >>> svn ls http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/ -v --depth=immediates >>> prints one entry, then never returns (ok, maybe not never. But waiting 10 >>> minutes is not enough). >>> >>> however, an >>> svn ls http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/ --depth=immediates >>> (same command as above, but without the verbose flag) returns the entries >>> almost immediately. >>> I don't think that simply fetching the verbose info could take so much >>> longer? >>> >>> This is with svn 1.7.2. >>> The same works fine with svn 1.6.6 - haven't tested with later 1.6 svn >>> clients since I don't have that version ready here on my machine. >>> >>> using serf instead of neon doesn't help. >>> >> >> http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/ >> The page has a lot of subdirectories (nearly 26000) >> The server is 1.6.12. >> >> Using client 1.6.17 (built by CollabNet, 32-bit, on Windows) it >> printed the first line in 10 seconds, and never printed the rest. I >> waited for ~1 minute. (Ctrl+C did not help, I had to unplug the >> network cable) >> >> Using client 1.7.2 (from TortoiseSVN, 32-bit, on Windows) the result >> is the same: >> the first line in ~10 seconds, the rest of data - ~never. >> >> 1.6.17: Removing "--depth" option does not change anything. >> 1.6.17: Removing "-v" the result appears in ~15 seconds and then takes >> ~10 seconds to print the listing to the console. > > I created a repository with 10,000 subdirs: > > #!/bin/bash > for i in `seq 0 999`;do > svn mkdir -mm file://`pwd`/repo/A${i}{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9} > done > As far I remember this issue occurs only over HTTP protocol and related to the fact that mod_dav/mod_dav_svn stores *ALL* XML report in memory before sending to server.
-- Ivan Zhakov
