Stuart Henderson writes:
> On 2016/02/01 12:44, [email protected] wrote:
> > >Synopsis: CVS fails to check out large files on amd64, sometimes
> > >Category: user amd64
> > >Environment:
> > System : OpenBSD 5.8
> > Details : OpenBSD 5.8 (GENERIC.MP) #1236: Sun Aug 16 02:31:04 MDT
> > 2015
> >
> > [email protected]:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP
> >
> > Architecture: OpenBSD.amd64
> > Machine : amd64
> > >Description:
> > When checking out large files using a local CVS server, the
> > final 'ok' line is not printed about 2/3 of the time and the
> > checkout subsequently fails.
> >
> > I heard through the grapevine (aka. #openbsd on freenode) that
> > this is a known problem affecting amd64. Hopefully some
> > diagnosis can shed some light on it. Personally I don't relish
> > the thought of digging into cvs' source.
>
> Not seeing this here but you may be running into memory limits.
> See dlimit in CVSROOT/config.
If it's memory limits, it's not anything caused by dlimit, which
complains correctly when it's reached (I think - see 8k).
For reasons I don't care to find out right now, the dlimit in the
originally sync'd version is 64*1024-1. I've kept up the pattern.
No dlimit line
without:# for k in `jot 100 1`; do grep . < in | cvs server | tail -n1; done |
sort | uniq -c
without: 11 3297. Xterm patch #119 (#3335, Thomas Dickey).
without: 89 ok
dlimit=262143
256k:# for k in `jot 100 1`; do grep . < in | cvs server | tail -n1; done |
sort | uniq -c
256k: 17 3297. Xterm patch #119 (#3335, Thomas Dickey).
256k: 83 ok
dlimit=65535
64k:# for k in `jot 100 1`; do grep . < in | cvs server | tail -n1; done | sort
| uniq -c
64k: 16 3297. Xterm patch #119 (#3335, Thomas Dickey).
64k: 84 ok
dlimit=32767
32k:# for k in `jot 100 1`; do grep . < in | cvs server | tail -n1; done | sort
| uniq -c
32k: 13 3297. Xterm patch #119 (#3335, Thomas Dickey).
32k: 87 ok
dlimit=8191
8k:# grep . < in | cvs server
8k:Valid-requests Root Valid-responses valid-requests Repository Directory
Max-dotdot Static-directory Sticky Checkin-prog Update-prog Entry Kopt
Checkin-time Modified Is-modified UseUnchanged Unchanged Notify Questionable
Case Argument Argumentx Global_option Gzip-stream wrapper-sendme-rcsOptions Set
expand-modules ci co update diff log rlog add remove update-patches
gzip-file-contents status rdiff tag rtag import admin export history release
watch-on watch-off watch-add watch-remove watchers editors init annotate
rannotate noop version
8k:ok
8k:E Terminated with fatal signal 11
8k:E Core dumped; preserving /tmp/cvs-serv25310 on server.
8k:E CVS locks may need cleaning up.
8k:error
Cheers,
Matthew
