[Zope-Coders] Re: svn.zope.org in an odd state

[Jens Vagelpohl]

On 8 Nov 2005, at 03:36, Tres Seaver wrote:

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> Fred Drake wrote:
>> On 11/7/05, Tres Seaver <tseaver at palladion.com> wrote:
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>>> svn: Berkeley DB error while opening 'strings' table for filesystem
>>> /svn/repos/main/db:
>>> Cannot allocate memory
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>> Yeah, this has been hosed for at least a good part of the day.  The
>> load on the machine is really low, and there's plenty of swap
>> available.
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>> Another generous gift of Berkeley DB.  :-(
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> Does the machine need to be tweaked somehow?  I can't make even the
> smallest checkin at this point.

I just repaired it by killing all svnserve processes and then running  
"svnadmin recover" against the /svn/repos/main folder.

It's high time to move away from that garbage BDB backend.

jens