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Re: Connection closed when going through content switch

From: Julian Foad <julianfoad_at_btopenworld.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:17:47 +0100

Hi JJ. This email list is for discussing the development of Subversion,
not about using it. Please post your query to the "users@" list instead.
Thanks.

- Julian

On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 06:56 -0500, JJ wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a Solaris 10 server running Subversion 1.5.1 served by Apache
> 2.2.9 sitting behind an f5 content switch. The content switch
> redirects all traffic to the one Subversion server. In case of
> emergencies we can manually redirect the content switch to a secondary
> server that is synced to with svnsync. In general though, the traffic
> is all directed to one server.
>
> This setup works fine in most cases. We have run into one odd problem
> though.
>
> On Windows, if I checkout a working copy and try to store it on NAS
> via a mapped drive, part way through the checkout I get the following
> error and the checkout aborts.
>
> svn: REPORT request failed on '/svn/REPONAME/!svn/vcc/default'
> svn: REPORT of '/svn/REPONAME/!svn/vcc/default': Could not read
> response body: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the
> remote host. (http://SVNSERVER)
>
> The error does not occur when the working copy is stored locally, or
> when the working copy is stored on NAS but I connect directly to the
> server instead of the content switch.
>
> A member of the network team here did a trace during checkout numerous
> times and determined the following.
>
> "
> We noted in the traces that the client TCP Receive Window drops to 0,
> indicating he can't receive any more data. He sends a zero window
> probe about 8 times over about 45 seconds, after which time the server
> resets the connection.
>
> I cannot tell why the client TCP window goes to 0 when the traffic is
> through the content switch, but not when it goes directly to the
> server. I think a ticket should be opened with the vendor for the
> client program to see if they've encountered this before.
> "
>
> Does anyone have any idea why this is happening? Should I change some
> setting with Apache so the connection isn't closed? I realize NAS
> here is slow, but we have a need for it. I just want to ensure that
> the checkout isn't killed by the server.
>
> Thanks,
> JJ
>

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