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.
