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Re: Is my repository too large?

From: Dave Oxley <david.oxley_at_workplace-systems.plc.uk>
Date: 2004-02-23 17:17:28 CET

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Dave Oxley wrote:

> Help, I think my repository may have grown too large.
> First some history: I reported a problem a while ago where I use
> subversion to hold backups of a database. The backups are just sql
> scripts, so only diffs should be stored which should be quite small.
> The deltification occasionaly fails (memory usage goes nuts and the
> system runs out of memory). It appears to be random. We have been
> having to run svnadmin recover on the db every 1 or 2 days.
>
> Now I got this error while trying to check in a file to the repos:
>
> Sending db_backups/db.sql
> Transmitting file data .svn: Berkeley DB error
> svn: Commit failed (details follow):
> svn: Berkeley DB error while checkpointing after Berkeley DB
> transaction for filesystem /var/repos/db:
> Invalid argument
>
> Doing a hot-backup.py gives:
> Beginning hot backup of '/var/repos'.
> Youngest revision is 1370
> Backing up repository to '/var/repos-bkup/repos-1370'...
> svn: Can't copy '/var/repos/db/strings' to
> '/var/repos-bkup/repos-1370/db/strings.tmp': File too large
> Unable to backup the repository.
>
> And running svnadmin recover gives:
> Please wait; recovering the repository may take some time...
> svn: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
>
> ls -l of db (I replace the user with ???):
> [root@cowboy db]# ls -l
> total 3458680
> -rw-r--r-- 1 ??? ??? 5795840 Feb 22 13:51 changes
> -rw-r--r-- 1 ??? ??? 8192 Feb 21 08:31 copies
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 ??? ??? 16384 Feb 22 14:23 __db.001
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 ??? ??? 278528 Feb 22 14:23 __db.002
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 ??? ??? 327680 Feb 22 14:23 __db.003
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 ??? ??? 917504 Feb 22 14:23 __db.004
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 ??? ??? 16384 Feb 22 14:23 __db.005
> -rw-r--r-- 1 ??? ??? 1474 Dec 7 14:25 DB_CONFIG
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 ??? ??? 1716 Feb 22 14:23 log.0000000001
> -rw-r--r-- 1 ??? ??? 5263360 Feb 22 13:51 nodes
> -rw-r--r-- 1 ??? ??? 34664448 Feb 22 13:51 representations
> -rw-r--r-- 1 ??? ??? 36864 Feb 22 13:51 revisions
> -rw-r--r-- 1 ??? ??? 3491323904 Feb 22 13:51 strings
> -rw-r--r-- 1 ??? ??? 339968 Feb 22 13:51 transactions
> -rw-r--r-- 1 ??? ??? 8192 Feb 21 08:31 uuids
>
> We are currently using SVN 0.35.0, Apache 2.0.48 on Fedora Core 1.
>
> Firstly I need help getting my repos back into working order.
>
> Secondly has the deltification process had any fixes recently that
> might fix what we've been seeing?
>
> Cheers.
>

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