kmra...@rockwellcollins.com writes: > 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. > > 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.
It might already be fixed: I see a leak with 1.7.x@r1293812 but r1293813 appears to fix it. -- Philip
