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Re: set maximum file size for commits

From: Rares Vernica <rvernica_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:23:42 -0700

Andy Levy wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 10:25 AM, <kmradke_at_rockwellcollins.com> wrote:
>> Blair Zajac <blair_at_orcaware.com> wrote on 04/09/2008 10:39:46 PM:
>>
>>> Rares Vernica wrote:
>> > > Hello,
>> > >
>> > > Is there a way to set the maximum file size for commits? That is, if I
>>
>> > > set the maximum file size to 4Mb and a user tries to commit a file
>> which
>> > > has 4.1Mb, the commit will fail.
>> > >
>> > > Thanks,
>> > > Ray
>> >
>> > You can check this in a pre-commit script. You'll need to get a list of
>> all
>> > added or modified files using svnlook and then cat each one.
>>
>> Any other way? This seems a bit late in the game, and fairly inefficient.
>> For
>> example, we have a number of groups who have committed multiple DVD .iso
>> files
>> in one transaction.
>>
>> While I don't mind punishing them by making them wait to transfer 4G+ and
>> then
>> wait some more while the server cats the file to count the bytes, both of
>> those actions are needlessly resource wasteful...
>>
>> I was hoping someone had experimented with some Apache options to limit
>> transaction size. (Yet another thing on my todo list that I hope someone
>> else has more experience with...) Possibly something like
>> LimitRequestBody 4194304 ????
>
> In that scenario, consider that Subversion only transfers differences
> across the wire. So how would you handle a situation where a user
> commits at 2MB file, then appends 3MB to it and commits that? Their
> individual commits were both under 4MB, but the resulting file is now
> 5MB.

I am using https and dav module and I am OK with the drawbacks of this
solution. Limiting only the amount an user commits at one time is OK.

I added
   LimitRequestBody 4194304
in various places in my apache2.conf (server config, virtual host,
location), but none of them seem to make a difference when I upload a
file of 5Mb.

I also tried the use the XML version of the argument, that is
   LimitXMLRequestBody
but the results are the same.

If I lower the limit, things start to happen. I get a "413 Request
Entity Too Large" error when I use:
   LimitRequestBody 437
   LimitXMLRequestBody 437

Anything higher that that will work just fine. One thing to notice is
that I use https.

I appreciate any suggestions on how to track this down.

Thanks,
Ray

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