From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:45:06 GMT
Subject: Re: git-svn -- out of memory
Message-ID: <20090216134506.GA20271@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vhc2ubssd.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 02:05:54AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> "Alfred M\. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >    > when doing a `git svn clone' on a subversion repository that contains
> >    > a large file (>1GiB), `git svn' dies with the following:
> >    > 
> >    > ams@trillian:~$ git svn clone REPO -T trunk -b branches -t tags
> >    > [...]
> >    > fatal: Out of memory? mmap failed: Cannot allocate memory
> >    > hash-object -w --stdin-paths: command returned error: 128
> 
> Ding...
> [...]
> The hash-object error message sounds like the issue that was fixed with
> 915308b (avoid 31-bit truncation in write_loose_object, 2009-01-29).  Does
> v1.6.2-rc1 help?

Hmm. The original problem I had with the 32-bit wrapping actually caused
malloc to fail, whereas this is an mmap failure. So it might not be the
same thing (but certainly testing with v1.6.2-rc1 will be a good data
point).

-Peff