From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:42:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG] malloc error when using large file.
Message-ID: <20090623184208.GA8165@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <B03A893ADFE80748942D13AFAF2845190C2D5D3BDC@ITSVLEX06.it.maxim-ic.internal>

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 12:05:11AM -0700, Emmanuel Puerto wrote:

> Yes I have more that 2 Go available when a do it, and after this
> allocation error if I try to do a 'git add' with a 9Go file, I did not
> have any issue.

It may be that doing a whole bunch of files in one process is leading to
some memory fragmentation that doesn't let malloc get a contiguous 2G
slice. I'm not sure what else to suggest trying, except perhaps to
search the list archives for past discussions on memory fragmentation.

Maybe somebody else has suggestions.

-Peff