svnwrap: use custom StringIO class in get_file() The wrappers were calling ra.get_file() with a cStringIO object. Empirically, svn 1.7.5 is writing 16kB blocks to the stream object, and cStringIO reallocates its internal buffer and doubles its size whenever it is filled. With large committed files this requires two large memory blocks at the same time. SimpleStringIO implements the mimimum StringIO interface used by ra.get_file() but instead stores all the blocks and "join" them at the end. It means more fragmentation but requires only one large block, without overallocation. Also, 16kB blocks should be friendly to most allocators. In practice, this simple change let me convert a revision containing multiple moderately large files, the largest being around 450MB, with a 32-bits Windows setup, python 2.7, swig svn 1.7.5, in stupid mode, while it was previously aborting with "not enough memory". The same revision still fails in replay mode.

#!/bin/sh
#
# Generate pushexternals.svndump
#

mkdir temp
cd temp

mkdir project-orig
cd project-orig
mkdir trunk
mkdir externals
cd ..

svnadmin create testrepo
svnurl=file://`pwd`/testrepo
svn import project-orig $svnurl -m "init project"

svn co $svnurl project
cd project/externals
mkdir project1
echo a > project1/a
svn add project1
mkdir project2
echo a > project2/b
svn add project2
svn ci -m "configure externals projects"
cd ../trunk
echo a > a
# dir is used to set svn:externals on an already existing directory
mkdir dir
svn add a dir
svn ci -m "add a and dir"
svn rm a
svn ci -m "remove a"
cd ../..

svnadmin dump testrepo > ../pushexternals.svndump