> Hi Subversion Folks,
>
> I use subversion at work and it works well. Thanks! We've recently
> started using svn:externals in a big way and are starting to see "svn
> update" fail because svn spawns an ssh child for each svn:external and
> they "stack up" until the count exhausts the limit of processes that
> macos lets one user fork (266 by default, I think). I can work around
> the problem by increasing those limits but that's not a long-term
> solution.
>
> I trolled the svn bug tracker and bug 2580[1] looked relevant. It
> indicated that there's a bug[2] in openssh's server that combined with
> svn's process handling caused ssh child processes to not exit cleanly.
> Sure enough, our linux server has the ssh bug, so I built svn 1.6.5
> from source and tried it on an Ubuntu 2009.10 server that has a fixed
> ssh server (as verified by the test mentioned in 2580's bug report).
>
> That didn't work either. It looks as if svn, even with the fix in
> 2580, spawns one ssh client for each svn:external and those clients
> don't exit - they just stack up until the parent "svn up" is finished:
>
> /home/tcabot/Downloads/subversion-1.6.5/subversion/svn/.libs/lt-svn up
> \_ ssh -q -o ControlMaster=no data1.dev svnserve -t
> \_ ssh -q -o ControlMaster=no data1.dev svnserve -t
> \_ ssh -q -o ControlMaster=no data1.dev svnserve -t
> \_ ssh -q -o ControlMaster=no data1.dev svnserve -t
> \_ ssh -q -o ControlMaster=no data1.dev svnserve -t
> etc...
>
> If it helps, this behavior is better than svn versions up through
> 1.6.4 that (at least on the mac) would spawn *two* children per
> svn:external:
>
> 12579 s000 Z+ 0:00.00 (ssh)
> 12580 s000 S+ 0:00.07 ssh data1.dev svnserve -t
>
> Any ideas? If you can think of any experiments for me to run, I'd be
> happy to do so.
I know this doesn't help your issue, but it is a possible solution. Is there any way you could set up apache and switch to the http protocol? My understanding is this issue is isolated to svn+ssh.
Just trying to think outside of the box.
BOb
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Received on 2009-10-16 17:29:05 CEST