Chris Tashjian wrote on Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 19:01:53 -0400:
> We've been having this problem for a while now (since late in the 1.5  
> releases and now right up thru 1.6.13) and I'm at a loss as to what the  
> cause is.
>
> We have a single repository with approximately 129K revisions.
>
> SVNServe.exe's memory usage, numerous times a day, spins up to about 2GB  
> and then the svn server becomes unresponsive.  Clients get:
>
>    svn: Can't connect to host 'svn': No connection could be made
>    because the target machine actively refused it.
>
> When this happens, I have to restart svnserve (sometimes force-killing  
> it in task manager first).
>
> I used to use CollabNet's windows distribution, but recently switched to  
> SlikSVN and we're still experiencing the problem.  I'm tempted to move  
> the server to a 64-bit box and try SlikSVN's 64-bit client, but I feel  
> that that may only be a band-aid and we'll start hitting the 4GB wall.
>
> There's no good logging for SVN, so I can't even seem to dig up an error...
>

Try 'svnserve --log-file' ?

> Does anyone have any suggestions?
>

What kind of filesystem does the repository have?

* FSFS or BDB?
* What version of svnadmin created it?
* Have you run 'svnadmin upgrade'?

Does the problem only occur with one backend kind?

> Thanks,
> Chris

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