Re: svn status gets 'killed'

On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 03:11:48PM -0400, pll@lanminds.com wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I recently set up an svn server, and to experiment, I imported a copy
> of the Linux 2.4.19 kernel source. On my 'client' system, I run:
>
> svn co http://server/svn/linux-2.4.19 linux-2.4.19
>
> and everything goes quite well. However, if I try to do an
> 'svn status', it just sits there for quite a while, and eventually
> just dies with a message 'Killed':
>
> ll@tater:/usr/local/src/linux-2.4.19$ svn status -u -v .
> Killed
> pll@tater:/usr/local/src/linux-2.4.19$

If you're on linux it is probably the OOM killer stepping in. How much memory
is the status taking?
>
> An 'strace svn status -u -v' results in:
>
> pll@tater:~$ strace -p 17537
> .
> .
> .
> +++ killed by SIGKILL +++
> pll@tater:~$
>
> Is something broken, or am I doing something wrong?
>
> (Oh, an an 'svn status -n' results in:
>
> svn: invalid option character: n
> Type `svn help' for help on Subversion usage.

It's -N now.
>
> but 'svn status --nonrecursive' works fine).
>
> I'm using: Subversion Client, version 0.14.1 (r2927)
> compiled Aug 24 2002, 11:36:34
>
> from the Debian packages 0.14.1-2.
>
> Oh, FWIW, 'svn help' seems to be broken in the newer 0.14.3-2
> packages under Debian:
>
> pll@tater:/usr/local/src/linux-2.4.19$ svn status -u -v --nonrecursive
> Type `svn help' for help on Subversion usage.
>
> pll@tater:/usr/local/src/linux-2.4.19$ svn help status
> Type `svn help' for help on Subversion usage.
>
> pll@tater:/usr/local/src/linux-2.4.19$ svn help
> Type `svn help' for help on Subversion usage.
> (err, that's what I did :)
>
Hmm, I had that problem the other day, but a rebuild of apr seemed to fix it.

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