[cvsnt] Explanation of crash on cvsnt server?

[Christian Ottosen]

REQUEST:
- Have anyone a good explanation of this result (see RESULT)?
- Is it a realistic test setup (see SETUP)?
- why does many commits in a row result in a cvs server crash?

RESULT:
After modifying and committing the same text file over and over again (in a
script) the cvsnt server crashes. The crash happens after 10 - 100 commits
(varies for each test). The cvsnt server crashes with this error message:

"Something bad happened to CVSNT, and it crashed. Would you like to produce
a crash dump?"


SETUP:
In order to test if the CVSNT server is stable we have done this:

  1. Installed cvsnt (1.11.1.3 beta build 72) on W2k server
  2. Installed WinCvs (1.3b12) on W2k client
  3. Imported a test module
  4. made a tcl script (se below), which edits and commits a textfile over
and over again
  5. finally we run this script through WinCvs using tcl shell command
'source script'

Content of 'script':
for {set x 0} {$x<500} {incr x} {
    exec cmd.exe /c echo 1 >> file2.txt
    cvs -x commit -m "no message" file2.txt
}