Bug 251364

Summary:	svnlite checkout: operation timed out
Product:	Services	Reporter:	support
Component:	Core Infrastructure	Assignee:	Cluster Admin <clusteradm>
Status:	Closed Not A Bug
Severity:	Affects Only Me	CC:	lwhsu, tech-lists
Priority:	---
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	arm64
OS:	Any

Description support 2020-11-25 04:26:37 UTC

I am running the build of 13 dated 20201112 on a Pi 4, and I'm trying to run this command 
sudo svnlite checkout https://svn.freebsd.org/base/head /usr/src

It can't complete because it keeps timing out and I've been trying for a few days now. I can't be sure if this is server flakiness, a bug in subversion or a bug in my incarnation of version 13 itself. 

However, I now see that on my Mac, I am dropping a few ping packets to svn.freebsd.org: 259 packets transmitted, 252 packets received, 2.7% packet loss. However, I'm not sure that's explaining the operation timed out problem, so there might be two separate problems here.

Comment 1 Li-Wen Hsu freebsd_committer

2020-11-25 05:04:00 UTC

This looks like a connection issue between you and the subversion mirror.

Can you let us know your location and the output of `host svn.freebsd.org` command?

In the mean time, you can try to relax the timeout setting of svn, see "http-timeout" in http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.advanced.confarea.html

You can also check out the git mirrors on github/gitlab.

Comment 2 tech-lists 2020-11-25 17:04:06 UTC

(In reply to support from comment #0)
Is /usr/src on usb3 or is it on your sdcard?

If the latter, it'll be because the card can't keep up with the writes svnlite wants to do. The fix in that case is to format a usb3 stick and mount /usr/src there and  then run svnlite.

Comment 3 support 2020-11-26 06:54:47 UTC

You are correct. I moved to a directory on the ZFS raid, which is connected via USB 3, and it's working.