Re: why does my SVN client process die an hour after completion of commit?

On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 10:34:52AM +0100, Jon Nicoll wrote:
> So, my question is: is there something in the 'svn commit' protocol
> which causes the client process to do a lot of work, potentially
> causing the client machine to run out of memory, up to one hour after
> the server has determined that a checkin is complete?

This is a known issue in Subversion 1.6.
Adding many files in one commit uses too much memory, see:
http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1964#desc12

As a workaround, use 'svn import', or upgrade to Subversion 1.7.
Received on 2011-10-21 13:16:46 CEST