From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:15:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG] malloc error when using large file.
Message-ID: <20090622211542.GA19364@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <B03A893ADFE80748942D13AFAF2845190C2D5D388A@ITSVLEX06.it.maxim-ic.internal>

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 02:54:18AM -0700, Emmanuel Puerto wrote:

> I use Git with some Virtual Machine and I have an issue with 2 of them.
> When I use some VM I have created with a "pre-allocated" disk split
> into a 2Go file. For example a "ls" give:
> [...]
> So if I just do a "git init" and after do a "git add -A" I have the
> following error:
> fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed

Many operations in git assume that a whole file can be held in memory at
once. Do you actually have 2G available on the machine? Are there any OS
limits that might be a problem?

-Peff