> Ben Jackson wrote:
>
>> The server itself is running ok doing checkouts, updates and commits...
>> however it's flaky and sometimes needs some time to chill out before it
>> lets us connect again. I assume this is due to BDB's inherent
>> instability with multiple users.
>
>
> Umm, wow. I do not think BDB has any "inherent instability with
> multiple users".
>
From http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch05.html#svn-ch-5-sect-1.3:
> Finally, because Berkeley DB is a library linked directly into
> Subversion, it's more sensitive to interruptions than a typical
> relational database system. Most SQL systems, for example, have a
> dedicated server process that mediates all access to tables. If a
> program accessing the database crashes for some reason, the database
> daemon notices the lost connection and clean up any mess left behind.
> And because the database daemon is the only process accessing the
> tables, applications don't need to worry about permission conflicts.
> These things are not the case with Berkeley DB, however. Subversion
> (and programs using Subversion libraries) access the database tables
> directly, which means that a program crash can leave the database in a
> temporarily inconsistent, inaccessible state. When this happens, an
> administrator needs to ask Berkeley DB to restore to a checkpoint,
> which is a bit of an annoyance. Other things can cause a repository to
> “wedge” besides crashed processes, such as programs conflicting over
> ownership and permissions on the database files. So while a BerkeleyDB
> repository is quite fast and scalable, it's best used by a single
> server process running as one user—such as Apache's *httpd* or
> *svnserve* (see Chapter 6, /Server Configuration/
> <http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch06.html>)—rather than accessing
> it as many different users via file:/// or svn+ssh:// URLs. If using a
> Berkeley DB repository directly as multiple users, be sure to read the
> section called “Supporting Multiple Repository Access Methods”
> <http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch06s05.html>.
So do I update BDB, update SVN, or both? I'm running BDB 4 (I think, how
do I confirm this?) and SVN 1.13.
>> Do you still think it's an incompatibility?
>
>
> I never thought it was an incompatibility in the first place.
>
>
>> Max Bowsher wrote:
>>
>>> Ben Jackson wrote:
>>>
>>>> Trying to do an svnadmin dump and get the "Unknown FS type 'bdb'"
>>>> error.
>>>> Maybe this is the problem?
>>>>
>>>> http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2005-04/0499.shtml
>>>>
>>>> In which case maybe the db is incompatible with the recent SVN 1.1
>>>> upgrade... I installed the binary and prayed (I know, I'm naive). Any
>>>> ideas? I want to transition to FSFS, and this is the only way that I
>>>> know how.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> It seems this binary you have installed does not support bdb.
>>> You need to find or compile one which does.
>>>
>>>
>>> Max.
>>
>
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