Troubleshooting hanging commits

We have started having intermittent hangs on commits, and would like
troubleshooting suggestions.

The server is subversion 1.3.2 on SLES9 over xinetd - running rock solid
for two years (FSFS).

Clients can checkout, diff, etc. On commits, they hang - if fact we
have to kill eclipse.
svnadmin recover does not seem to find (or fix) anything. After a
recover and killing svnserver
processes we can sometimes commit for a few sessions.

I cannot locate an svn error log (xinetd.log has START/EXIT entries).

I tried a tcp trace using Wireshark from Windows XP - the exchange up to
the hang is as follows:

( success ( 1 2 ( ANONYMOUS ) ( edit-pipeline ) ) )
( 2 ( edit-pipeline svndiff1 absent-entries ) \
 76:svn://kong.sladmin.com/svn-repository/WebApps/trunk/AptamerDB )
( success ( ( ANONYMOUS CRAM-MD5 ) 4:Kong ) )
( ANONYMOUS ( 0: ) ) ( success ( ) )
( success ( 36:2b0d28ef-9b19-0410-a0bb-bcc6e5dd04af
37:svn://kong.sladmin.com/svn-repository ) )
( commit ( 27:add web behavior, refs #163 ( ) false ) )
( success ( ( CRAM-MD5 ) 4:Kong ) )
( CRAM-MD5 ( ) )

Is there a svnserver error log that can help me out?
Should I dump and re-load the database?
Any suggestions are appreciated.

Thanks,
 -Dennis
Received on 2008-01-17 19:43:47 CET