On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 7:05 AM, Anthony Jefferson <[email protected]>wrote:
> All,
>
> Since this is my first post, I would like to say how much I like Fossil. I
> discovered Fossil about 4 month ago, did some initial testing and
> recommended it for use on our many small projects. It is now used on 6
> different projects.
>
> The other day one of our developers accidentally checked in a large zip
> file of about 160 meg.
Ouch. Maybe you should consider shunning that one artifact.
http://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/doc/trunk/www/shunning.wiki
When cloning, Fossil builds up a complete HTTP reply in memory then pushes
it over the wire. Each artifact has to fit completely within one reply -
there is no mechanism to split huge artifacts up into pieces. I'm guessing
that the 160 ZIP archive is requiring too much memory somehow.
> After that the repository could not be cloned successfully over the
> network. I ran the following scenario as a test using an XP 64 machine with
> Apache 2 running Fossil as a CGI. I used the latest windows fossil.exe from
> the downloads.
>
> I created a new repository and began filling it with items. I was able to
> clone this repository successfully till it got to about 325 meg. At that
> point the client attempting the clone reaches 98.7% complete and up pops the
> windows dialog saying "fossil.exe has encountered a problem and needs to
> close". If I work with the repository locally I can still use it and
> continue to add artifacts. The network clone simply will not complete
> successfully.
>
> I tested an older fossil.exe from Feb. by creating yet another repository
> and using "fossil.exe server repo.fossil" as the server. The clone does not
> complete in the this scenario either.
>
> Is there something about the networking I am missing? What can I do to help
> find the problem? Network Cloning is pretty key to our operation.
>
> Thanks,
> Tony Jefferson
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