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Re: Apache cpu usage on large commit

From: Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2006Q1_at_ryandesign.com>
Date: 2006-03-22 17:04:18 CET

On Mar 22, 2006, at 16:33, Andrew Webber wrote:

> Forgive me if this has already gone around on the mailing list, but
> I didn't see anything about it.
>
> I'm trying to perform a very large commit (~4 Gb) into my
> repository and it's not working. The commit begins and starts
> tranferring the data. After a while, no more dots appear showing
> me that the transfer is proceeding. The svn client hangs there
> indefinitely without spitting out an error. On the server, I can
> see an apache process running at around 98% cpu usage. It looks
> like there is still some memory free on the server, so I don't
> think it's thrashing. There is plenty of hard drive space
> available both on the client and the server. Once things get this
> way I need to kill the client and restart apache. I didn't see
> anything useful in my apache access or error logs. I can see a
> transaction in the repository using 'svnadmin lstxns /path/to/
> repos'. The transaction folder weighs in at 2.1 Gb. Here are some
> stats about my server:
>
> RHEL 4.2
> Apache 2.0.52-22
> Subversion 1.3.0 (built from source)
> Repository on ext3 filesystem
>
> Have I reached a commit size limit in apache? ra_dav?

You have reached the 2-GB file size limit of APR 0.9.x. APR 1.2.x,
available with Apache 2.2, does not have this limitation.

There still remains this > 2GB-commit problem on Linux servers with
FSFS repositories, which will be resolved when the next version of
APR 1.2.x is released:

http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2453

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