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

Hi Stefan, Philip

Thanks for your postings:

> 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

The reason it happens after a commit is complete on the server is that the client has to modify the metadata for all the items in the working copy that were committed. When the commit starts the items being committed all have local modifications of some kind, when the commit is complete they must all be change to unmodified. This can involve a lot of work, writing pristine text and properties, updating the revision numbers. This updating cannot happen until the client knows that the commit was successful.

====

Ah, that makes sense, thanks.

So for now I would be best off to regard my 'initial working directory' as suspect, and if I checkout from the server into a new directory, that directory should be correct, yes?

(this commit of a large number of files is not something I will have do very often, if at all, after this initial commit).

I'm using SVN client v.1.5.4 BTW - a bit older that I expected. I will also look into getting this updated to 1.7.

    Thanks & Regards
    Jon N

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