Re: cvs history error...

[Larry Jones]

Robert Bresner writes:
> 
> Also, when I tried doing CVS history commands with the older cvs (1.9.x)
> it would die immediately with "out of memory" errors. 
> With 1.10.8, the history command will sit for a long long while trying
> to get through our history, then it will die with the signal 11.

In that case, my guess is that somewhere in your 600+MB history file you
have one or more invalid records; the history parsing code isn't very
robust and is apt to SEGV when confronted with a bad record.  I've just
checked in a change to fix that so you may want to try downloading the
current development version (see www.cvshome.org for details) and see if
it works any better.

-Larry Jones

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