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RE: Berkeley DB error + svnadmin freezes

From: Erik Huelsmann <e.huelsmann_at_gmx.net>
Date: 2004-05-24 20:24:19 CEST

Which version of BDB are you using? Some versions of it are known to have
trouble wich dual cpu setups.

> Yes I tried svnrecover. It doesn't output anything after "Please wait;
> recovering the repository may take some time...". I let it run for almost
> 40 minutes (I disabled one cpu, now it's a single P3 600 Mhz, operating on
> a
> 70 Mb repository), and the cpu is used at 0%. All the svn command freezes
> and don't complete (I've shut down apache and that's the only way the
> users
> got there so I'm sure to be the only one accessing it).
>
> It's probably not even a direct svn bug but it sounds to me like the
> berkeley db is in a bad shape, and the cause is potentially the same that
> this user below experienced: dual cpus and/or raid.

Erik.

>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Collins-Sussman [mailto:sussman@collab.net]
> Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 12:46
> To: Brice Dardel
> Cc: users@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: RE: Berkeley DB error + svnadmin freezes
>
> On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 12:42, Brice Dardel wrote:
> > I just encountered the same error as described by Stefan below. I have
> a
> > few repositories on the machine, one of them when I do a "svnadmin
> verify"
> > does:
> >
> > svn: Berkeley DB error while opening 'revisions' table for filesystem
> > marketing/
> > db:
> > Not enough space
>
> Did you run 'svnadmin recover'?
>
> 'svnadmin verify' is equivalent to checking out (reading) every single
> revision. If other read-operations fail, so will 'verify'.
>
> I'm seeing a general trend: a lot of users seem to think 'verify' means
> 'read and repair'. It doesn't. It just means 'read'. Only the
> 'svnadmin recover' command does any repair.
>
>
>
>
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