On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 11:36 AM, Philip Martin <philip.martin_at_wandisco.com>
wrote:
> 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.
>
Understood.
--
Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/
Received on 2014-10-01 17:41:18 CEST