Re: [serf-dev] serf errors on responses bigger than 4GB

Mark Phippard <markphip_at_gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 10:03 AM, Philip Martin <philip.martin_at_wandisco.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> I can trigger the decompression error on a 5GB REPORT by setting
>> http-bulk-updates=yes on the client side.
>>
>>
> This does not really answer the question.
>
> Was your REPORT 5GB because it had a single file > 4GB or because it had
> tens of thousands of small files? Mike's question is about the latter.
>
> Does Serf only fail when decompressing a single large file, or also if the
> entire REPORT response happens to be > 4 GB? The latter probably would be
> a much more common problem to run into if it can happen.

I don't think it makes a difference, serf will generate the error in
both cases.

Serf is decompressing the HTTP body of the REPORT. At the Subversion
level the body is an XML <S:update-report> but as far as serf is
concerned it is just a block of data that has to be decompressed. Serf
doesn't look to see whether the uncompressed data really is XML so it
certainly doesn't care whether there is one <S:txdelta> or many.

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Philip Martin | Subversion Committer
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