Large SVN checkout fails sporadically

Question

I\'m currently experiencing issues during a large, full SVN repository checkout (20GB+), where the checkout process will halt randomly. The repository is composed of many small

Answer 1

We've been running into this same problem recently. So far I think it has been related to newer subversion clients.

Apache dav_svn_module directive

SVNAllowBulkUpdates Prefer

Seems to help. After adding that into apache conf, no issues have been found. Before that most of the large check outs failed.

I found a discussion thread which explains the problems which are related to subversion clients that are newer than version 1.8.x. See the mailing list thread.