On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 1:05 PM Ash Rubigo <ashrub...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm trying to extract projects from a large repository into their own > separate repositories. > > I understand to use `svnadmin dump`, then `svndumpfilter`, and finally > `svnadmin load`. > > Trouble is during `svnadmin dump` one of the revisions results in an > 'out of memory' error. The revision in question is large, on the order > of 20GB and I only have 16GB of RAM. > > I have tried incrementally dumping, but had the same issue. > > Is it really the case that if a revision is larger than the available > RAM it cannot be dumped?
Just a thought, but it does not answer the question... Use GParted, and increase the swap file to say, 64 GB. Then set swappiness to a low value, like 2. The low swappiness value will keep most stuff in RAM, and spill over to disk rarely. Most of the swap file will remain unused. But it should allow your dumps to proceed. Jeff
