Re: Memory leak in svn propget -R ?

NASCIMENTO eduardo wrote:
> Hi Hyrum!
>
> Thanks for your help. I did more tests and it's clear that the problem
> is NOT with svn. I think it's related to some bugged configuration in
> mod_dav or Apache. When I run svn using the file protocol there is no
> crash:
>
> svn propget -R svn:externals --username myuser --password XXXX
> file:///svn/myrepos > myrepos.txt
>
> I'll do more research to understand what's happening.

Sorry to hear that you are still having a problem, but I'm glad it's not
Subversion's fault.

-Hyrum

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hyrum K. Wright [mailto:hyrum_wright_at_mail.utexas.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 3:37 AM
> To: NASCIMENTO eduardo
> Cc: users_at_subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Re: Memory leak in svn propget -R ?
>
> NASCIMENTO eduardo wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I'm experiencing problems when running svn propget -R on the root of a
>> large repository (7 GB). The command eats all memory available and the
>> system crashes.
>>
>> COMMAND:
>>
>> svn propget -R svn:externals --username myuser --password XXXX
>> https://server/svn/myrepos > myrepos.txt
>>
>> SVN VERSION:
>>
>> svn, version 1.5.1 (r32289)
>> compiled Jul 29 2008, 12:13:26
>>
>> Copyright (C) 2000-2008 CollabNet.
>> Subversion is open source software, see http://subversion.tigris.org/
>> This product includes software developed by CollabNet
>> (http://www.Collab.Net/).
>>
>> The following repository access (RA) modules are available:
>>
>> * ra_neon : Module for accessing a repository via WebDAV protocol
> using
>> Neon.
>> - handles 'http' scheme
>> - handles 'https' scheme
>> * ra_svn : Module for accessing a repository using the svn network
>> protocol.
>> - with Cyrus SASL authentication
>> - handles 'svn' scheme
>> * ra_local : Module for accessing a repository on local disk.
>> - handles 'file' scheme
>> * ra_serf : Module for accessing a repository via WebDAV protocol
> using
>> serf.
>> - handles 'http' scheme
>> - handles 'https' scheme
>>
>> I saw there is a thread in the dev list regarding the same problem. I
>> thought it was fixed in the current version:
>>
>>
> http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/BrowseList?list=dev&by=thread&from
>> =649504
>>
>> Should I open a bug report?
>
> I can't reproduce this on both the latest 1.5.x sources or trunk. Also,
> the
> revision specified in that thread have been merged to 1.5.x, and should
> have
> been included in a 1.5.x release some time ago. I'm running against the
> Subversion repository at svn.collab.net.
>
> Can anybody else reproduce Eduardo's error?
>
> -Hyrum
>
>
>