Re: Update and Status in large working copy causes Windows to hang

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:14 AM, <Ullrich.Jans_at_elektrobit.com> wrote:
> Hi.
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> Now I'm getting bitten by this.
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>> -----Original Message-----
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>> From: Justin Johnson [mailto:justin_at_honesthacker.com]
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>> Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 9:39 PM
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>> Subject: Re: Update and Status in large working copy causes Windows to
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>> hang
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>> Interesting, none the less.  Thank you.
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>> I was still planning on trying to get Symantec AV disabled for testing
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>> purposes.  Just posting my progress.  :-)
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>> I'll post again with my results of that test, assuming I can convince
>> someone
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>> to let me.
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> In my case, disabling OfficeScan didn't help. I have the funny issue that
> two machines that are nearly identical except for the processor behave
> differently.
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> Machine A: Intel Core2 Quad, 4 GB memory, running XP SP3: works.
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> Machine B: Intel i7, 4 GB memory, running XP SP3: gets the issue with
> insufficient system resources.
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> Findings we had:
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> TortoiseSVN works on both machines. (1.6.8, svn libs 1.6.11)
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> Command line svn client creates the issue on machine B, not on machine A.
> Version of the command line client: 1.6.12, was also tested with 1.6.1
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> Disabling hyperthreading on machine B has no effect.
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> Disabling TurboBoost on machine B has no effect.
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> It’s not a memory problem – the machine did not run out of memory, according
> to the windows performance counters.
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> Running vmware player on machine A, svn update crashes on the host, works on
> the guest.
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> Windows doesn’t quite hang, when the screen locks, you can still try to log
> on as Administrator, which logs off the subversion user and causes the
> machine to recover.
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> I’m running out of ideas what else to try to get it running.
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> Versions:
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>     APR 1.3.9
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>     APR-util 1.3.9
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>     APR-ICONV 1.2.1
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>     Neon 0.28.6
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>     Berkeley DB 4.4.20
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>     OpenSSL 0.9.8o
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>     ZLib 1.2.3
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>     Apache 2.2.15
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>     Python 2.6
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>     libintl 0.14.1 (patched)
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>     Ruby 1.8.6
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>     Cyrus SASL 2.1.22
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>     serf 0.3.0
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>     sqlite 3.6.22
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> The compiled command line binary was downloaded from http://alagazam.net/

Some quick questions from the hip:
- What kind of disks are the working copies located on for machine A
and B? Locally or remotely?
- For A and B: are they 32-bit or 64-bit?
- How big is the working copy we're talking about? Can you give an
idea of the number of directories, the number of files, and the total
disk space (excluding .svn dirs)?

Cheers,

-- 
Johan