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Re: git-commit fatal: Out of memory? mmap failed: Bad file descriptor

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Jan 12, 2008, 04:56 UTC
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<20080112045637.GC5211@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 10:18:32PM +0000, Charles Bailey wrote:
> I have seen this exact type of failure (commit reports possible oom, but 
> commit appears to have succeeded) with most recent gits.

This is almost certainly caused not by the commit action itself (which uses very little memory) but by the resulting diffstat to show what happened. So the commit has already been "committed" to disk by the time it crashes.

This is at least the case with Brandon's problem (his stack trace shows the diff happening).

-Peff
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