Bug#252974:

[Guilherme de S. Pastore]

Em Ter, 2005-10-04 às 00:39 +0100, Max Bowsher escreveu:
> Hi, I'm an upstream Subversion developer, adding a few comments to this 
> discussion.

Thanks for all the help you've been providing! =)

> I agree that converting to FSFS is a workaround, not a fix.
> However, there is not enough information in this bug report as-is for anyone 
> to do anything useful with it.
> 
> High volume of activity alone is certainly not the cause of problems, since 
> there are some giant active BDB repositories in use - the ASF's, for one.

Totally agreed.

> Regarding trying to move forward with this bug, I suggest the first thing to 
> do is to post the errors produced with a current version of Subversion. 
> Versions 1.1.0 and later have much improved verbosity of BDB error messages, 
> over the 1.0.x series.
> 
> Also, I'd suggest reviewing the permissions set on the repositories, and 
> considering the umask of the accessing processes - sporadic semi-regular 
> wedging of a BDB repository could be indicative that when a new database 
> logfile is created, it is being created without group-write perms (due to 
> the umask), thus barring access to processes relying on group privs for 
> access.
> Please show "ls -lR repository" output for a repository in a problem state.
> 
> Another thing that would be useful to know is what access methods are being 
> used - exclusively http? or other accessors too, besides apache?

I'll get these to the bug submitter ASAP. Once again, thank you! =)

Regards,

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