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Re: Out of memory error during git push

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TJThomas Jampen <jampen@kinet.ch>
Date
Aug 20, 2010, 21:21 UTC
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On 20.08.2010 22:59, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
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> On Fri, 20 Aug 2010, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> 
>> (+cc: Nicolas, who knows the packing code pretty well)
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Thomas Jampen wrote:
>>
>>> I'm experiencing the following error while pushing a git repo (home
>>> directory) to my QNAP TS-210:
>>>
>>> user@mypc:~$ git push origin master
>>> Counting objects: 12532, done.
>>> Delta compression using up to 2 threads.
>>> Compressing objects: 100% (8974/8974), done.
>>> fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed, 986.06 MiB | 1.65 MiB/s
>>> error: pack-objects died of signal 13
> 
> How much memory is there on the machine where the pushed data is going?

My NAS has 256MB RAM. While the push is running, there is between 20-50MB RAM available according to MemFree reported by 'head /proc/meminfo'. The harddrive space should not be an issue, its about 2TB.

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