On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 2:25 AM, Jason Malinowski <jason_at_jason-m.com> wrote:
> I'm currently in the process of moving an older SVN 1.4 repository to
> SVN 1.5. To do so, I dumped the old repository, copied the dump from one
> machine to another, and loaded it up. I started up an svnserve process
> on the new repository, and was initially able to access it just fine.
> The svnserve is a hand-build version running on Ubuntu 8.04. I wanted
> SVN 1.5, and thus had to build myself. I am currently running a non-SASL
> build.
>
> However, after using it for a few minutes (doing a few test commits,
> making sure a friend could access it, etc), we noticed that it started
> to get very slow. Every action, either through TortoiseSVN or Subclipse
> seemed to be hanging for about a half of a minute before it would
> complete. I first noticed it when trying to make a branch of trunk/ from
> HEAD, which should have been an almost instant operation, especially
> since I didn't switch my WC. It's not always consistent. Sometimes it
> will complete fast as I expect, but sometimes it takes a bit.
>
> I suspect that there are two problems here. Either (1) there's just some
> network issues between my location and the server, or (2) the svnserve
> process is hanging. I don't suspect (1). I can repro the hangs if I
> checkout a local copy of repository when ssh'ed to the server. Ctrl+C
> won't stop Subversion, but I can still Ctrl+Z and it's fine, so it's
> *not* my ssh terminal hanging. Of course, sometimes it also works fine.
> Also, the CPU of the machine isn't loaded by either the svnserve or the
> svn client. We can repro it even if there is nothing else of note
> running on the machine.
>
> So ruling out (1), it might be (2). Looking at the network traffic when
> it freezes up in Wireshark, it gets this far:
>
> ( success ( 2 2 ( ) ( edit-pipeline svndiff1 absent-entries
> commit-revprops depth log-revprops partial-replay ) ) ) ( 2 (
> edit-pipeline svndiff1 absent-entries depth mergeinfo log-revprops )
> 29:svn://XXX.XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.com ) ( success ( ( CRAM-MD5 ) 16:XXXXXXXX
> XXXXXXX ) ) ( CRAM-MD5 ( ) )
>
> [URLs and realm masked to protect the innocent, but length *was*
> preserved]
>
> It always seems to stop right after the CRAM-MD5() thing. So: is this
> hang a known issue with svnserve 1.5? Does anybody have any ideas how I
> should diagnose this? I'm just starting it as "sudo svnserve --daemon
> --root <path>". I can't find anything online about this, but it seems
> quite odd.
>
> Oh: and other 1.5 svnserves I have running on various Windows boxen run
> fine configured the same as this, so this is my first time observing
> this behavior.
My first guess would be that you have a post-commit hook that is
running and needs to be adjusted for the the SVN 1.5 paths or upgrade.
I'd look at that first.
--
Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/
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Received on 2008-08-27 14:12:48 CEST