On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 12:54 AM John Abraham <j...@theabrahams.ca> wrote: > > I have some internet reliability issues on some clients which seems to cause > a big problem with 'svn merge’. 'Svn checkout' seems to be ok, it will > either fail (and can be manually restarted) or it will continue. But 'svn > merge’ often just sits there, with no internet traffic, no disk access, no > CPU usage. My hypothesis is that this happens after it had some problem > connecting to the server, and rather than retrying consistently, or giving up > and throwing an error message, it just sits there bored for maybe 45 minutes > not knowing what to do. > > What would be a good way to test my theory? Does anyone have another theory? > > It’s a pretty big repo, 26GB, biggest file is 3GB, but the internet traffic > monitor today showed it stalling out after only ~10MB of traffic came down…
First thing to check: what version is your SVN client and your SVN server? If not the latest, can your re-check with at least the latest client version, and see if the problem is still there? Just to rule out the possibility that it's a bug that has been fixed already. -- Johan