Bazaar Subversion Plugin

svn-import fails with out of memory error

Bug #533185 reported by Nils Durner on 2010-03-06

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #191731: Memory resource consumption issues prevent branch of very large svn repositories. Edit Remove

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Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Bazaar Subversion Plugin	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Both svn-import and "bzr branch" on an SVN repo fail with "out of memory". While working, the bzr allocates a couple of MB per second, without freeing. I've seen spikes of over 1 GB, which were released again. How can I get more debug info on this?

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Nils Durner (ndurner) wrote on 2010-03-06:

I tried it with Bzr 2.1 on a different machine (less RAM) and another SVN branch (http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk). The bzr process slowly grew from about 20 MB to 660 MB, but didn't abort.

Martin Pool (mbp) on 2010-03-08

affects:

bzr → bzr-svn

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Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer) wrote on 2010-03-08:

Does the repository contain any particularly large files or perhaps a lot of reasonably large files?

The only way of doing memory debugging I'm aware of is using meliae (https://launchpad.net/meliae)

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Martin Pool (mbp) wrote on 2010-03-08:

See http://jam-bazaar.blogspot.com/2009/11/memory-debugging-with-meliae.html