“Network connection closed unexpectedly” upon svn checkout

Question

When I attempt to checkout:

svn checkout svn+ssh://serveradmin%foo@foo.com/home/87292/data/svn/repository/trunk .

I get this (unhelpful) er

Answer 1

I was connecting to a local network svn and this happened to me from some point on (it actually happens periodically).

All the references I have found surfing mention something related with SSH. SSH may well be the root of my problem too somehow, but I managed to overcome the problem by killing some of the svnserve processes.

I can do this because I know what is the usage of my server, but don't know the relevance of doing this in a server with more concurrence.