From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:50:11 GMT
Subject: Re: Out of memory error during git push
Message-ID: <20100820145011.GF16190@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <23639398.583.1282314377177.JavaMail.root@hermes>

Thomas Jampen wrote:

> vm.overcommit_memory = 0
> 
> Do you propose to set this to '2' in order to disable overcommitting?

It might be interesting to try

 echo 1 >/proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory

but 0 is generally the only sane setting.