On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Dan Villiom Podlaski Christiansen <
danchr_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3 Jun 2010, at 17:45, Philip Martin wrote:
>
> > Dan Villiom Podlaski Christiansen <danchr_at_gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >> The bug is somewhat subtle, and the circumstances causing it are
> >> fairly complex. In the cause of running a test suite, we open
> >> repositories repeatedly using the ‘file’ protocol, log their history
> >> and fetch the contents of all revisions. This will fail after about
> >> a hundred tests, having exhausted file descriptors. Inspecting the
> >> output of ‘lsof’ on the process, there are 216 open references to
> >> ‘rep-cache.db’ files.
> >
> > Issue 3506 has changed the way the rep-cache is written:
> >
> > http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3506
> >
> > The changes are not in 1.6 yet:
> >
> > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/branches/1.6.x-issue3506/
>
> I just switched my checkout to that branch, compiled and ran the tests. And
> it worked! Great!
>
> Is there any particular reason why it hasn't been merged into the 1.6.x
> branch yet?
>
It just needs one more vote, as per STATUS:
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/branches/1.6.x/STATUS
Lobbying here or on IRC for that vote will improve it's chances of being
cast. (But I suspect that it will happen before we get to 1.6.12.)
> > If converting a repository is a bit like "svnadmin dump" then it may
> > not be SWIG, you might be seeing issue 3593:
> >
> > http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3593
>
> That's interesting. I'm currently doing a dump-and-load of the cvs2svn
> repository. (For some reason, this is obnoxiously slow…) I'll give it a try
> once it completes and report back.
>
> For what it's worth, we also get massive leaks with the SWIG bindings when
> cloning/converting over the network. I'm sure this isn't the only cause of
> those leaks :)
>
:( For which flavor of the swig bindings are you seeing problems?
-Hyrum
Received on 2010-06-03 18:40:35 CEST