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Posted to users@subversion.apache.org by David Aldrich <Da...@EMEA.NEC.COM> on 2017/03/08 10:39:48 UTC
update runs forever
Hi
I am running svn 1.9.5 on Windows 10.
We run many repos under svn, and they have run fine for years.
In the last 24 hours one of our svn repositories has started exhibiting problems. When I run 'svn update' against one of its branches the update does not complete, it hangs.
I have tried with other clients, the result is the same. I have to kill the update and run cleanup. Other users see the same problem.
How can I identify the cause of this problem please?
Best regards
David
RE: update runs forever
Posted by David Aldrich <Da...@EMEA.NEC.COM>.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Shahaf [mailto:d.s@daniel.shahaf.name]
> Sent: 08 March 2017 15:44
> To: Johan Corveleyn <jc...@gmail.com>
> Cc: David Aldrich <Da...@EMEA.NEC.COM>;
> users@subversion.apache.org; Stefan Hett <st...@egosoft.com>
> Subject: Re: update runs forever
>
> Johan Corveleyn wrote on Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 12:17:55 +0100:
> > Is there anything special about that branch you're trying to update?
> > Is it specific to that branch, and other branches work fine?
>
> You said the problem started in the last 24 hours, so check what changes were
> made to the branch around that timeframe.
My best guess is that it was caused by a file committed recently with spaces in the file name. I have removed the spaces and the update seem ok now. But that may be coincidental.
Thanks for your help,
David
Re: update runs forever
Posted by Daniel Shahaf <d....@daniel.shahaf.name>.
Johan Corveleyn wrote on Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 12:17:55 +0100:
> Is there anything special about that branch you're trying to update?
> Is it specific to that branch, and other branches work fine?
You said the problem started in the last 24 hours, so check what changes
were made to the branch around that timeframe.
Re: update runs forever
Posted by Johan Corveleyn <jc...@gmail.com>.
On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 12:08 PM, David Aldrich
<Da...@emea.nec.com> wrote:
>>From: Stefan Hett [mailto:stefan@egosoft.com]
>>> Can you open the Windows task manager while the update seems to be stuck and check the process information of the svn-update process? Can you determine whether CPU or disk-access is at 100% during the time? If not, is the process' CPU usage changing (between 0 and 0.1%) or is it completely stuck at 0%?
>>>
>>> Do you have the option of checking the server load when this happens? I.e. if the server is running on Windows, check the task manager of the server-side svn process. Is that at 100% during the "stuck" update process?
>>> Did you test whether a clean/fresh check out of the branch solves the problem?
>>> --
>>> Regards,
>>> Stefan Hett
>>>
>>>
>
> Hi Stefan
>
> Thanks for your reply. Windows task manager shows 0% cpu for the Windows command processor running svn update.
>
> I don't have access to the server at the moment (it runs on Linux and is under corporate control).
>
> A colleague tried a fresh checkout with a sparse checkout of branches (immediate directories only). That ran ok. But an update of a branch, setting depth to infinity, hangs. Updates to trunk are ok.
>
> BR
>
> David
Maybe the process is fully occupied doing disk or network I/O. In
Windows Task Manager, can you add the columns "I/O read", "I/O write",
"I/O other" and "I/O read bytes", "I/O write bytes", "I/O other bytes"
(via View > Select columns), and check if you see activity there?
Is there anything special about that branch you're trying to update?
Is it specific to that branch, and other branches work fine?
Maybe someone made a mistake with that branch in the repository (e.g.
server-side copied from the wrong level, or perhaps someone created an
infinite recursion of "svn:externals" definitions in there)? See if
you can browse the branch with a repository browser (with TortoiseSVN,
or via 'svn ls $URL' and 'svn proplist -v -R $URL' (for seeing the
svn:externals properties) from the command line) and look for anything
out of the ordinary.
--
Johan
RE: update runs forever
Posted by David Aldrich <Da...@EMEA.NEC.COM>.
>
>
>From: Stefan Hett [mailto:stefan@egosoft.com]
>Sent: 08 March 2017 10:55
>To: users@subversion.apache.org
>Subject: Re: update runs forever
>
>On 3/8/2017 11:39 AM, David Aldrich wrote:
>Hi
>
>I am running svn 1.9.5 on Windows 10.
>
>We run many repos under svn, and they have run fine for years.
>
>In the last 24 hours one of our svn repositories has started exhibiting problems. When I run 'svn update' against one of its branches the update does not complete, it hangs.
>
>I have tried with other clients, the result is the same. I have to kill the update and run cleanup. Other users see the same problem.
>
>How can I identify the cause of this problem please?
>
>Best regards
>
>David
>
>> Can you open the Windows task manager while the update seems to be stuck and check the process information of the svn-update process? Can you determine whether CPU or disk-access is at 100% during the time? If not, is the process' CPU usage changing (between 0 and 0.1%) or is it completely stuck at 0%?
>>
>> Do you have the option of checking the server load when this happens? I.e. if the server is running on Windows, check the task manager of the server-side svn process. Is that at 100% during the "stuck" update process?
>> Did you test whether a clean/fresh check out of the branch solves the problem?
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Stefan Hett
>>
>>
Hi Stefan
Thanks for your reply. Windows task manager shows 0% cpu for the Windows command processor running svn update.
I don't have access to the server at the moment (it runs on Linux and is under corporate control).
A colleague tried a fresh checkout with a sparse checkout of branches (immediate directories only). That ran ok. But an update of a branch, setting depth to infinity, hangs. Updates to trunk are ok.
BR
David
Re: update runs forever
Posted by Stefan Hett <st...@egosoft.com>.
On 3/8/2017 11:39 AM, David Aldrich wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I am running svn 1.9.5 on Windows 10.
>
> We run many repos under svn, and they have run fine for years.
>
> In the last 24 hours one of our svn repositories has started
> exhibiting problems. When I run svn update against one of its
> branches the update does not complete, it hangs.
>
> I have tried with other clients, the result is the same. I have to
> kill the update and run cleanup. Other users see the same problem.
>
> How can I identify the cause of this problem please?
>
> Best regards
>
> David
>
Can you open the Windows task manager while the update seems to be stuck
and check the process information of the svn-update process? Can you
determine whether CPU or disk-access is at 100% during the time? If not,
is the process' CPU usage changing (between 0 and 0.1%) or is it
completely stuck at 0%?
Do you have the option of checking the server load when this happens?
I.e. if the server is running on Windows, check the task manager of the
server-side svn process. Is that at 100% during the "stuck" update process?
Did you test whether a clean/fresh check out of the branch solves the
problem?
--
Regards,
Stefan Hett