How do I gracefully shutdown the svnserve process

[Garrick Olson <Ga...@Aceva.com>]

I don't see anything in the documentation about how to properly shutdown
the svnserve process.

Is it always safe to just kill the svnserve process?  Might that leave
things locked or in an inconsistent state?

Is there a way to instruct svnserve to stop processing new requests,
complete current requests, then gracefully shutdown?

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Re: How do I gracefully shutdown the svnserve process

[mark benedetto king <mb...@lowlatency.com>]

On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 11:59:04AM +0100, Tobias Ringstrom wrote:
> svnserve again. You must be very careful not run recover while a 
> repository is being accessed via any other access method.

This is either no longer true, in which case we need to dispel this
practice from the collective conscious, or it is still true, in which
case we need to fix it.  I suspect the former.

--ben


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Re: How do I gracefully shutdown the svnserve process

[Tobias Ringstrom <to...@ringstrom.mine.nu>]

Garrick Olson wrote:
> I don't see anything in the documentation about how to properly shutdown
> the svnserve process.
> 
> Is it always safe to just kill the svnserve process?  Might that leave
> things locked or in an inconsistent state?
> 
> Is there a way to instruct svnserve to stop processing new requests,
> complete current requests, then gracefully shutdown?

It depends on whether you use threads or forked processes. The default 
for Unix is to use fork, and the only option on Windows is to use threads.

Using a forking svnserve, you can safely kill the parent process. Any 
child processes will exit when they have served their clients.

There is no safe way to shut down a threaded svnserve yet. Unless you 
know that svnserve is not serving any clients when you kill it, you 
should run svnadmin recover on your repositories before you start 
svnserve again. You must be very careful not run recover while a 
repository is being accessed via any other access method.

I recommend running svnadmin recover on all repositories during the boot 
process since you cannot know if the repositories were properly closed 
or not.

/Tobias


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