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

I had the following errors:

Unable to deliver content.  [500, #0]
Could not write data to filter.  [500, #175002]

I didn't even use the mod_deflate so that couldn't be it. In my case it turned out to be the authentication (auth_digest_module) causing the error. If a checkout lasts more than 300 seconds, I would have the above error logged in my Apache server log.

The problem is the default AuthDigestNonceLifetime 300 directive. See here. My solution was to set this directive to infinity: AuthDigestNonceLifetime -1