Hi Vincent,
On 7/27/2016 2:36 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> When I do "svn blame" on some file (36972 lines), svnserve takes
> more than 800 MB on the server (and is killed due to lack of
> memory). So, it seems that svnserve is inefficient in terms of
> memory usage (that's at least 22 KB per line!).
>
> svnserve, version 1.8.8 (r1568071)
>     compiled Aug 20 2015, 12:51:30 on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
>
Can you try to bump your svnserve version to at least 1.8.15?
Skimming through the changelog suggests several memory related 
tweaks/fixes got in between your 1.8.8 version and the current one (not 
sure whether your particular case has been fixed already, though).

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Regards,
Stefan Hett