[copying dev@ because I found what the issue is] Hi,
Did some further investigation and it turns out that SVN1.8 client creates more connections to the server when performing 'svn merge' - exceeding the xinetd's default number of connections per source (10) and indeed, closing the connection on an unsuspecting client. After increasing the number of connections per source to unlimited, the merge went through. Here are some statistics: SVN 1.7, merge --reintegrate 13 connections total, 5 concurrent connections maximum SVN 1.8, merge 18 connections total, 11 concurrent connections maximum SVN 1.8, merge --reintegrate 5 connections total, 3 concurrent connections maximum So, it looks like the new code for automatic detection of "reintegration merges" in 1.8 spawns a bunch of additional connections. So, the question is - what is the maximum number of connections that a client can create to a server? Does it depend on the size of the change? Size of the svn:mergeinfo? I am not comfortable leaving the server configuration at "unlimited", seeing that xinetd limit is a safety net against runaway client bringing down the server. Regards, Alexey. On Sunday, June 23, 2013 12:56:27 PM Alexey Neyman wrote: Hi, I've tried upgrading the client to SVN 1.8, and now see some strange merge errors while reintegrating the branch. According to http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.8.html#auto-reintegrate the --reintegrate option is now deprecated, its use is discouraged and SVN should be able to figure that out automatically. However, when I tried a plain "svn merge", it gave me the following error: [aneyman@build2 trunk]$ svn merge ^/MERGE-PATH svn: E210002: Unable to connect to a repository at URL 'svn://MERGE-URL' svn: E210002: Network connection closed unexpectedly Strangely, 'svn merge --reintegrate' worked fine. We are running 1.6.11 on the server (stock RedHat RPM, "1.6.11-2.el6_1.4" version). I installed SVN 1.8.0 RPM from WanDisco ("1.8.0-1") on the client. Any clues/suggestions as to how to debug this further? Regards, Alexey.
