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FW: svnserve processes

From: BRUGGEMAN Jens (JBRG) <Jens.Bruggeman_at_seco-m.be>
Date: 2005-02-11 14:40:00 CET

Hi,
 
I seem to have an ennoying problem with subversion.
I installed subversion version 1.1.1-r3 on a Linux Gentoo box. I alsoo made
the repositories, configuration went perfect even the usage did.
Quit an amazing system !
 
On the Gentoo box you have 1 main process being 'svnserve -d -r
/home/repositories'. This runs as deamon as you can see.
When an user wants to performa an update, commit or checkout .. This main
process forks and creates a child process. the child process will do its
thing and close itself and return to the parent (main).
But sometimes, I can't really say when (but often) an update, or commit
takes like for-ever (10-15 minutes) to take place. I already upgrade the
subversion client TortoiseSVN to the latest version to be sure it is not
client-side problem. I alsoo upgraded the svn server to the latest build
being 1.1.3 to be sure this isn't a problem which is already solved.
I have used the command 'strace' on the process so see what is happening
with the child process and why it takes such a long time.
Some users did an update on their working copy and aborted the action
because it took too long. This process is 'idling' now already for about 1
day. Doing nothing. I can kill the process for sure, but isn't there a
time-out on the child processes?
 
I can paste some logging of a process which has stopped doing anything:
 
11:21:59 fork(Process 9952 attached
) = 9952
[pid 9952] 11:21:59 getpid() = 9952
[pid 9952] 11:21:59 getrlimit(RLIMIT_STACK, {rlim_cur=RLIM_INFINITY,
rlim_max=RLIM_INFINITY}) = 0
[pid 9952] 11:21:59 close(3) = 0
[pid 9952] 11:21:59 write(4, "( success ( 1 2 ( ANONYMOUS ) ( "..., 52) =
52
[pid 9952] 11:21:59 read(4, "( 2 ( edit-pipeline ) 31:svn://1"..., 4096) =
59
....
[pid 9952] 11:21:59 open("/dev/random", O_RDONLY) = 5
[pid 9952] 11:21:59 read(5, "\25\320XW\362~", 8) = 6
[pid 9952] 11:21:59 read(5, <unfinished ...>
[pid 9952] 11:30:06 <... read resumed> ")}", 2) = 2
 
 
Between those 2 actions: 9 minutes before resuming. Why did it even stop? I
got lots of such message, unfinished .. after some time resumed action.
 
After that line:
[pid 9953] 11:30:06 <... read resumed> "\230\10\226\257t\266U\3", 8) = 8
[pid 9952] 11:30:06 close(5 <unfinished ...>
[pid 9953] 11:30:06 close(5 <unfinished ...>
[pid 9952] 11:30:06 <... close resumed> ) = 0
[pid 9953] 11:30:06 <... close resumed> ) = 0
.... (Lots of actions)
[pid 9952] 11:30:08 unlink("/tmp/report.tmp") = 0
[pid 9952] 11:30:08 write(4, "( success ( ) ) ", 16) = 16
[pid 9952] 11:30:08 read(4, <unfinished ...>

 
11:30:08 was the latest action the process has done. Doing a read which was
unfinished and never resumed.
I still have the process doing 'ps -ef | grep svn'
root 9952 3630 0 11:21 ? 00:00:00 svnserve -d -r
/home/svnroot/

So the process started at 11:21 .. Took about 9 minutes and did not even
complete.
 
What could be wrong? Anyone any ideas? I would love to get this problem
solved to get an optimal working situation.
 
Greetings,
Jens
Received on Fri Feb 11 14:42:22 2005

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