lockup

[Robin Becker <ro...@reportlab.com>]

I have just upgraded the reportlab server to freeBSD 6.0 and with that 
to svn version 1.2.1 (r15230). The repository is BSDB and accessed only 
through apache https and we have had no lockups for about a year until 
my colleague reported one today.

One of the changes caused by the OS upgrade was that we also changed to 
using the (recently moved to tigris) viewVC latest code (as none of the 
previous releases seem to handle svn). My colleague claims he was using 
viewVC when the lockup occurred; are there any other reports that could 
bear on this?

I have trac on the machine, but it is only being tested and is not 
connected to any of our active repositories (or visible to apache).

Failing anything more concrete, what kind of things cause these lockups 
and can anything be done to ameliorate the problem?
-- 
Robin Becker


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Re: lockup

[Andy Levy <an...@gmail.com>]

On 12/30/05, Robin Becker <ro...@reportlab.com> wrote:
> Robin Becker wrote:
> ......
> > Failing anything more concrete, what kind of things cause these lockups
> > and can anything be done to ameliorate the problem?
>
> My colleague informs me that he caused the lockup using the following.
>
>  > 1. Looked at stuff in viewcvs (fine, though 'view' seems to be
>  > behaving as if all files are empty)
>  >
>  > 2. Tried 'download' instead of 'view': hang, hit stop button
>  >
>  > 3. ViewCVS now not responding
>  >
>  > 4. svn st -u now not responding
>
> Point 1 seems to indicate that viewVC is probably badly configured so
> I'll take the problem there for more advice.

It may be BDB as well; I haven't used it myself, being a new SVN user,
but everything I have read indicates that BDB is quite prone to
"wedging" and locking up.  Since you're using 1.2.x, you may want to
think about converting to FSFS, which is much more reliable.

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Re: lockup

[Robin Becker <ro...@reportlab.com>]

Robin Becker wrote:
......
> Failing anything more concrete, what kind of things cause these lockups 
> and can anything be done to ameliorate the problem?

My colleague informs me that he caused the lockup using the following.

 > 1. Looked at stuff in viewcvs (fine, though 'view' seems to be
 > behaving as if all files are empty)
 >
 > 2. Tried 'download' instead of 'view': hang, hit stop button
 >
 > 3. ViewCVS now not responding
 >
 > 4. svn st -u now not responding

Point 1 seems to indicate that viewVC is probably badly configured so 
I'll take the problem there for more advice.
-- 
Robin Becker


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