On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 10:04:59AM -0600, kmra...@rockwellcollins.com wrote: > All, > > Has anyone else noticed a client memory leak when using > svn:externals in the 1.7.3 client? > > We have a large project with tens of thousands of externals. > When checked out with a 1.6 client, it uses 150MB of memory. > When checked out with a 1.7 client it uses >1.5GB of memory. > Same memory issue occurs with an update. > > I'm still putting a test script together to show the behavior, > but it appears to be leaking 400k per external when I > watch task manager in Windows. > > We first observed this with TortoiseSVN, but the same > behavior exists with the command line client. > > I was hoping a developer may have valgrind setup > and could catch this easier. > > Server version does not matter, this occurs with > both a 1.6.17 and a 1.7.3 server when a 1.7.3 > client is used. Does not occur if a 1.6.17 client > is used. All testing was done with neon, but > that is only because serf does not complete > the test.
Can you please check if you can reproduce this with the 1.7.x branch? It is possible that this was fixed as a side-effect of r1293813. > I'm in the middle of creating the script to > create the test case, but was hoping > to get a fix into 1.7.4, so I'm posting this early. The current plan is to roll 1.7.4 by the end of this week.
