[Roland Stigge] > I've got a BDB 4.3 repository with a strings file of size 4230414336. > Running "svn ci", "svnadmin verify", etc., the process stalls without > an error (waiting for me to kill the process).
Yeah, that's pretty odd. Are you reasonably certain it is related to
the file size? I know people have huge repositories in BDB (subversion
itself is kept in one).
> stat64("/vol/svn/ernie/db/strings", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644,
> st_size=4230414336, ...}) = 0
> open("/vol/svn/ernie/db/strings", O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE) = 10
> fcntl64(10, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0
> fstat64(10, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=4230414336, ...}) = 0
> select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 1000}) = 0 (Timeout)
> select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 2000}) = 0 (Timeout)
> select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 4000}) = 0 (Timeout)
> select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 8000}) = 0 (Timeout)
> select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 10000}) = 0 (Timeout)
A couple of things to notice: first, clearly BDB is 4 GB safe, you can
see by the use of stat64, fstat64, fcntl64, and open with O_LARGEFILE.
So this isn't the same as the usual subversion problems with large
files. Second, the pattern of selects (used here as a high-resolution
sleep call) looks to me like trying to get a lock or something.
In any case it smells like a BDB problem, but of course I can't know
that for sure, so I won't reassign the bug. Can you run db_verify on
your file? "cd /vol/svn/ernie/db; db4.3_verify strings" (The 'cd'
avoids the need to specify a -h parameter.)
We will be moving to BDB 4.4 in the not-too-distant future (before etch
is released, we hope). I wonder if that will solve your problem.
Thanks,
Peter
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