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Re: Memory leak remains in 1.6.3?

From: Andy Levy <andy.levy_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:40:08 -0400

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:19, Stefan Küng<tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Andy Levy wrote:
>> I have not yet tested this with the command-line client. I hope to
>> today, but other priorities may get in the way.
>>
>> One of my users is reporting problems locking a bunch of files on one
>> of his workstations, so I've been trying to reproduce the issue. I
>> asked him to upgrade to 1.6.3 and he's still testing. I upgraded
>> myself to 1.6.3 this morning, and while I can't reproduce his issues
>> (couldn't with 1.6.2 either), I'm observing a large amount of memory
>> used and not released.
>>
>> Steps to reproduce:
>> 1) I have a WC of 848 PDF files, total size about 1GB (excluding .svn
>> directories)
>> 2) Select all PDFs, right-click, TSVn _> Get Lock
>> 3) Lock Files dialog takes a while to populate, but it's 848 files - I
>> kind of expect that
>> 4) Make sure all all are selected and click OK
>> 5) All files are successfully locked. TortoiseProc.exe shows a Virtual
>> Size of 649MB, Working Set of 440MB in Sysinternals Process Explorer
>> (I have 2GB physical RAM)
>> 6) Click OK. TortoiseProc.exe does NOT disappear from Process Explorer
>> (I gave it over a minute). Rest of system is bogged down heavily due
>> to this memory usage.
>> 7) Terminate TortoiseProc.exe and system behavior returns to normal.
>>
>> The exact same thing happens when I follow this sequence in unlocking
>> the files as well.
>
> Locking/unlocking is usually done on very few files, so the svn library
> is optimized for that. Locking/unlocking hundreds of files indicates not
> a problem with svn but with your workflow (seriously: are you *really*
> working on all those 848 files at once?).

I was locking all 848 as an extreme test scenario, to see if I could
reproduce this individual's issue. He was only locking 150 or so
files.

We're rolling out SVN to our whole IT group (about 3 dozen people) of
which maybe a half-dozen have any software development experience and
even fewer have source control experience. As a result, a lot of
people are going to be using "bad" workflows.

A couple of groups are getting the practice of locking plain-text
files, despite my repeatedly telling them that it's not needed. Some
folks are checking out WCs, making a change to a single document, then
deleting the WC after committing - when they need to make another
change, they'll just check out all over again.

There's only so much I can do to "fix" peoples' usage patterns - I'm
just happy that version control is being used at all.

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