Re: svnserve segfaults with 1.6 FSFS if stack size below 2 GB

[Lasse Kliemann <la...@plastictree.net>]

* Message by -Lasse Kliemann- from Wed 2009-04-08:
> The SSH server on my machine runs with limited memory resources, 
> set via 'softlimit' <http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/softlimit.html>. 
> This used to work for years. However, the FSFS format introduced 
> in the 1.6.x series doesn't seem to like it: [...]

I did some more tests.

softlimit offers four more specific options than -m, namely -d, 
-s, -l, and -a. Using -m is equivalent to giving all these four.

Any combination of -a, -d, and -l (apparently) does not cause 
trouble.

However, using -s (which causes softlimit to make the system call 
setrlimit with RLIMIT_STACK) and with (apparently) anything below 
2147483648 (= exactly 2 GB) gives a segfault. It works for 
2147483648 and (apparently) anything higher than that.

The limits I gave yesterday are of course useless, since they are 
much larger than what can be stored in an unsigned long int.

So, in a nutshell, svnserve segfaults with 1.6 FSFS whenever the 
stack size is limited to something below 2 GB.