unfortunately in the past weeks the SVN service we are using has become a bit unreliable. this resulted in about 5-10 errors per hours (socket read timeout, etc) mostly during SCM poll triggered builds.

The outcome of this error leaves 'svn log copier' thread hanging around in a TIMED_WAITING state, These threads keep growing in number until an inevitable JVM crash with an OOME due to resource starvation (GrowableArray), jdk 1.6.0 update is out and will probably delay further this crash but I think it's better to fix the issue in the first place.

I can provide further details and if if required.

thanks