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  1. Subversion
  2. SVN-4626

Deadlock-like behaviour of svnserve in multithreaded mode (-T)

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    • Bug
    • Status: Open
    • Major
    • Resolution: Unresolved
    • 1.9.3
    • None
    • svnserve
    • None
    • Windows 10, CentOS 6.6

    Description

      Our application generates lot of concurrent read requests to subversion using svn: protocol. When we tested the multithreaded mode of svnserve after upgrade to 1.9.3, we noticed strange 'deadlock-like' behaviour: at some point all the requests are blocked in svnserve and wait there for a few minutes (3 to 5 minutes, no CPU activity), after which they continue to work. This is making our application significantly slower. We observed this behaviour on both Windows 10 and CentOS 6.6.
      The workaround is to run svnserve without -T switch, i.e. not using multithreaded mode.

      Here is a sample of thread dump of svnserve.exe during the 'deadlock' obtained on Windows 10 using Process Explorer:

      ntoskrnl.exe!KeSynchronizeExecution+0x3de6
      ntoskrnl.exe!KeWaitForMutexObject+0xc7a
      ntoskrnl.exe!KeWaitForMutexObject+0x709
      ntoskrnl.exe!KeWaitForMutexObject+0x375
      ntoskrnl.exe!IoThreadToProcess+0xff0
      ntoskrnl.exe!KeRemoveQueueEx+0x16ba
      ntoskrnl.exe!KeWaitForMutexObject+0xe8e
      ntoskrnl.exe!KeWaitForMutexObject+0x709
      ntoskrnl.exe!KeWaitForMutexObject+0x375
      ntoskrnl.exe!NtWaitForSingleObject+0xf2
      ntoskrnl.exe!setjmpex+0x3963
      ntdll.dll!NtWaitForSingleObject+0x14
      MSWSOCK.dll!Tcpip6_WSHSetSocketInformation+0x155
      MSWSOCK.dll+0x1bf1
      WS2_32.dll!WSAAccept+0xce
      WS2_32.dll!accept+0x12
      libapr-1.dll!apr_socket_accept+0x46
      svnserve.exe+0xc11c
      svnserve.exe+0xbae5
      svnserve.exe+0xaf6c
      svnserve.exe+0x13ab
      KERNEL32.DLL!BaseThreadInitThunk+0x22
      ntdll.dll!RtlUserThreadStart+0x34

      The similar stack can be seen with other threads too.

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        1. repo-client-1.0-SNAPSHOT.zip
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          Jakub Stroleny
        2. repo-client-1.0-SNAPSHOT-sources.jar
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          Jakub Stroleny

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