Re: Large Commits Fail

Thanks for the information, Erik. How are Subversion commits
executed? One large XML file or file-by-file? I'm getting the error
again while trying to commit a large merge and I'd really like to keep
the merge recorded in a single commit. If the commit is file-by-file
then it doesn't seem like this would really be the problem (but I also
don't know what the XML format looks like).

Thanks again. I'd like to know as much as possible before trying this
over and over again and risking the database itself.

Thanks.

On 8/21/06, Erik Huelsmann <ehuels@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/19/06, Rob Wilkerson <r.d.wilkerson@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Can someone help me understand why I can't seem to perform large-scale
> > commits? Is this a limitation of Subversion? I have a reasonably
> > large - but not crazy - repository (roughly 3,000 files). I just set
> > svn:keywords on all files from the root and that worked great. When I
> > try to commit, however, the commit fails. If I try the same commit
> > multiple times, the reason for the failure changes frequently. The
> > "location" of the error (at least where it's reported in the commit
> > process) changes every single time.
> >
> > Sometimes I get this:
> > At least one property change failed; repository is unchanged
> >
> > Sometimes I get this:
> > CHECKOUT of '/repos/myproject/!svn/ver/16/branches/dev/tahoe-code-reorg/.java/src/com/wintertree/ssce/PropSpellingSession.java':
> > could not connect to server (http://vm-seprojects)
> >
> > There are one or two others that make an appearance, too, but I don't
> > have access to those at the moment. Considering the inconsistency
> > with which I get them and the locations in which they're reported, the
> > message itself may (or may not) be terribly important.
> >
> > Seems like doing several smaller commits solves the problem, but
> > that's not really much of a solution.
> >
> > This has happened to me before on large commits and I've never been
> > able to figure it out. Anyone have any thoughts?
>
> The Apache server has a maximum XML request body. If you surpass the
> amount specified, the server hangs up the connection. In the second
> case, you may have hit that problem. Search the Apache docs for the
> parameter to set.
>
> In the former case, you may have hit a bdb locks limit, if your
> repository is bdb; you can change the DB_CONFIG file to up the limit
> of available locks.
>
> HTH,
>
>
> Erik.
>

-- 
Rob Wilkerson
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