Comment 172 for bug 330824

@Ulrich: Are you sure none of those operations involved deleting files? The usual symptom is that the system hangs *after* the rm is successful, so that's not out of character. SVN does some amount of file-based locking, IIUC, which means at some point it has to rm the lock file. Creating a tarball shouldn't remove anything - but surfing the Web may very well, if the cache is full and it has to start clearing out old entries.

And I know that it's not in *all* cases that heavy load is important - as I'm encountering the bug, ANY rm freezes the system every single time.

@DanielV: Are they on the same volume? If not, then mv = cp + rm, no?