RE: CVS - Terminated with signal 25

[Wiest, Damian]

Raghu,

We're talking about two different things.  Ulimit is showing you user limits
that are imposed by the shell; the "unlimited" means that no ulimit is in
effect, it does not (in the case of file size) mean that your filesystem
hosting the CVS repository has support for large files (those greater than 2
Gigabytes in size).  How to check, or configure your filesystem for large
file support is operating system dependent and a bit off-topic for this
list.

If you can run something like systrace or truss against the cvs binary and
then cause it to terminate with signal 25 (not sure what that is on your
system, check /usr/include/sys/signal.h) I think you'll see that it
originates from a filesystem call.

I'm fairly certain, though not positive, that CVS includes support for large
files.  Could one of the maintainers, or someone with a repository that has
large files in it please confirm this?

-Damian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Raghu Kumar C [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 1:31 AM
> To: Wiest, Damian
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: RE: CVS - Terminated with signal 25
> 
> Damian,
> 
>       This is what "ulimit -a" command on my CVS server says:
> 
> core file size          (blocks, -c) 0
> data seg size           (kbytes, -d) unlimited
> file size               (blocks, -f) unlimited
> pending signals                 (-i) 1024
> max locked memory       (kbytes, -l) 32
> max memory size         (kbytes, -m) unlimited
> open files                      (-n) 1024
> pipe size            (512 bytes, -p) 8
> POSIX message queues     (bytes, -q) 819200
> stack size              (kbytes, -s) 10240
> cpu time               (seconds, -t) unlimited
> max user processes              (-u) 77824
> virtual memory          (kbytes, -v) unlimited
> file locks                      (-x) unlimited
> 
> 
> The file size says its unlimited.
> 
> -Raghu
> ________________________________________
> From: address@hidden 
> [mailto:address@hidden 
> On Behalf Of Wiest, Damian
> Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 3:40 AM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: RE: CVS - Terminated with signal 25
> 
> Hi Raghu,
>  
> Can you confirm that you have large file support enabled on 
> your filesystem?  My guess is that's your problem and not CVS.
>  
> -Damian
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: Raghu Kumar C [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 6:35 AM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: CVS - Terminated with signal 25 All,
> 
>  This mail is send as info about the error mentioned in the 
> subject - "Terminated with signal 25". This error occurs when 
> the repositories history file (located at CVSROOT/history) 
> size crosses 2GB. You could resolve this by reducing the size 
> of the history file by deleting its contents. For more 
> information on this please visit the blog page
> 
> http://www.jroller.com/page/dschneller?entry=cvs_history_size_limit
> 
> It took me three hours to find this out. A Google search 
> didn't help me.
> I thought I'll post this info in this mail group so that 
> someone tomorrow won't have to waste so much of time. :)
> 
> Regards,
> Raghu
> 



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