Split the dumpfile to smaller dumpfiles or try a newer version of svnadmin.
(or dive into the source and help us plug that memory leak --- compile with APR pool debugging enabled) Victor Sudakov wrote on Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 09:07:32 +0600: > Colleagues, > > I have a CVS repository sized 54M with 17751 files. > > "cvs2svn --dumpfile" produces a dump sized 13G. svnadmin cannot load > this dump aborting with an out of memory condition on a FreeBSD > 8.1-RELEASE box with 1G of RAM and 2.5G of swap. > > I really need to convert this repository to SVN. What should i do? Any > advice is appreciated. > > -- > Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN > sip:suda...@sibptus.tomsk.ru