Major Description
There appears to be three areas that use too much memory when lots of files are
deleted. The patch at the url fixes #1 below and passes all ra_local tests on
Windows.
1. During a commit of many deleted targets, the client process memory grows
inordinately.
2. During a commit of many deleted targets, the server process (svnserve) memory
grows inordinately.
3. During an update of many deleted targets, the client process memory grows
inordinately
Recipe recap below (note that using * in the command line to generate lots of
targets rather than just operating on the directory is what seems to trigger it):
Recipe running HEAD (r7968) svnserve and client on Windows:
create empty repo
check it out
copy lots of files into the root wc folder (no subdirs)
(I used the files -- no subdirs -- from Apache's docs/manual
directory and apr-iconv's ccs directory)
svn add *
svn commit
svn co to a secondary wc for later use
svn del *
svn commit * -- without the above patch, both the client and the
server memory grow to huge amounts; with the
patch the client stays steady but the server still
grows
cd to secondary wc
svn up -- the client memory grows to huge amounts
http://www.contactor.se/~dast/svn/archive-2003-12/0433.shtml
Original issue reported by djh