> -----Original Message----- > From: Ivan Zhakov [mailto:i...@visualsvn.com] > Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2014 14:31 > To: Butler, Stephen > Cc: users@subversion.apache.org > Subject: Re: Subversion 1.8 freezes during long updates > > On 1 July 2014 21:45, Butler, Stephen <stephen.but...@hamburgsud.com> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > I'm trying to help users in our corporate network. They currently > > use Subversion 1.7 + neon (via TortoiseSVN) because of errors in > > checkout/update using Subversion 1.8. During a long checkout or > > update, TortoiseSVN 1.8 freezes after downloading a few hundred MBs > > of data. The svn command-line client does the same. > > > > To get more information, I compiled Subversion (within the > > TortoiseSVN branches/1.8.x tree) with serf tracing turned up to eleven > > (SSL_MSG_VERBOSE, etc). Then the errors no longer occur! Apparently > > the extra output changes the timing somehow. But performance is of > > course very bad. Less tracing recreates the errors, but without > > revealing a smoking gun. > > > > I attached the Visual Studio debugger to a frozen cmdline client. It > > seemed to be looping through impl_pollset_poll (in apr/poll/unix/select.c) > > without receiving anything. > > > > On the Subversion server, the last message in the Apache access log is a > > successful file download (matching the last line of client output). The > > Apache error log had nothing new. The network has lots of firewalls and > > transparent proxies, as was the case in a problem that Branko recently > > solved: > > > > > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/subversion-users/201401.mbox/ > > %3C52D6D944.8060308%40wandisco.com%3E > > > > Should I try to corner the network admins, or is there a client/server > > troubleshooting step I've overlooked? > > > > Thanks for any insights, > > > Hi Steve, > > 1. Does the issue reproduce if you force bulk updates using > '--config-option=servers:global:http-bulk-updates=yes' command line option > or 'SVNAllowBulkUpdates prefer' on the server side?
Setting either option seems to solve the problem completely. I should have read the release notes more carefully! > > 2. Do you have antivirus installed on client computers? FWIW, yes, but in this case it was "mostly harmless". > > -- > Ivan Zhakov Thank you, Steve Butler _____________________________________________ Hamburg Südamerikanische Dampfschifffarts-Gesellschaft KG Registered Office: Hamburg, Germany Commercial Register: Amtsgericht Hamburg HRA 59448
