mailer.py eating 100% CPU during several minutes

Hi,

On my Debian Etch system, I'm running subversion 1.4.2, and the
associated subversion-tools 1.4.2. In the post-commit file, I have:

REPOS="$1"
REV="$2"
CONFIG="/srv/svn/adl/hooks/mailer.conf"

/usr/lib/subversion/hook-scripts/mailer/mailer.py commit "$REPOS"
"$REV" "$CONFIG"

The repository is accessed through WebDAV from an external machine. The
problem is that every commit (even a one-line change in one file) takes
several minutes. On the server, I see that the mailer.py script eats
all the CPU. Running strace on the running mailer.py process allows to
see this:

close(948183) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor)
close(948184) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor)
close(948185) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor)
close(948186) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor)
close(948187) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor)

[Gazillions of similar lines with file descriptor numbers inscreasing
 skipped]

If I run the exact same command (mailer.py), with the same arguments,
from the root account on the server, then it completes in one second
(and the mail is properly sent).

So there must be something different with the environment that runs
mailer.py (Apache 2, running as www-data), but I have no idea how to
debug further this issue.

Any idea ?

Sincerly,

Thomas

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