We did a checkout of pretty large subversion repository.
At the end it gave this error:

FATAL: remote file operation failed
hudson.util.IOException2: remote file operation failed
at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:306)
at hudson.scm.SubversionSCM.checkout(SubversionSCM.java:347)
at hudson.scm.SubversionSCM.checkout(SubversionSCM.java:300)
at hudson.model.AbstractProject.checkout(AbstractProject.java:564)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.checkout(AbstractBuild.java:244)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.run(AbstractBuild.java:218)
at hudson.model.Run.run(Run.java:664)
at hudson.model.Build.run(Build.java:101)
at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:70)
at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:71)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Remote call failed
at hudson.remoting.Channel.call(Channel.java:399)
at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:303)
... 9 more
Caused by: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
at java.util.Arrays.copyOfRange(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.String.<init>(Unknown Source)
at java.io.BufferedReader.readLine(Unknown Source)
at java.io.BufferedReader.readLine(Unknown Source)
at
org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc.admin.SVNAdminArea14.readEntry(SVNAdminArea14.java:641)
at
org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc.admin.SVNAdminArea14.fetchEntries(SVNAdminArea14.java:535)
at
org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc.admin.SVNAdminArea.loadEntries(SVNAdminArea.java:1156)
at
org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc.admin.SVNAdminArea.getEntry(SVNAdminArea.java:977)
at
org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc.admin.SVNAdminArea.tweakEntry(SVNAdminArea.java:270)
at
org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc.SVNWCManager.tweakEntries(SVNWCManager.java:280)
at
org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc.SVNWCManager.tweakEntries(SVNWCManager.java:301)
at
org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc.SVNWCManager.tweakEntries(SVNWCManager.java:301)
at
org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc.SVNWCManager.tweakEntries(SVNWCManager.java:301)
at
org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc.SVNWCManager.tweakEntries(SVNWCManager.java:301)
at
org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc.SVNWCManager.tweakEntries(SVNWCManager.java:301)
at
org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc.SVNWCManager.tweakEntries(SVNWCManager.java:301)
at
org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc.SVNWCManager.tweakEntries(SVNWCManager.java:301)
at
org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc.SVNWCManager.tweakEntries(SVNWCManager.java:301)
at
org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc.SVNWCManager.tweakEntries(SVNWCManager.java:301)
at
org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc.SVNWCManager.tweakEntries(SVNWCManager.java:301)
at
org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc.SVNWCManager.tweakEntries(SVNWCManager.java:301)
at
org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc.SVNWCManager.updateCleanup(SVNWCManager.java:271)
at
org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc.SVNUpdateEditor.closeEdit(SVNUpdateEditor.java:368)
at
org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.wc.SVNCancellableEditor.closeEdit(SVNCancellableEditor.java:145)
at
org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.io.dav.handlers.DAVEditorHandler.endElement(DAVEditorHandler.java:270)
at
org.tmatesoft.svn.core.internal.io.dav.handlers.BasicDAVHandler.endElement(BasicDAVHandler.java:70)
at
com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.endElement(Unknown
Source)
at
com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanEndElement(Unknown
Source)
at
com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDriver.next(Unknown
Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.next(Unknown
Source)
at
com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.next(Unknown
Source)
at
com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown
Source)