From: Thomas Jampen Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:21:02 GMT Subject: Re: Out of memory error during git push Message-ID: <4C6EF1BE.6040603@kinet.ch> In-Reply-To: On 20.08.2010 22:59, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > 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.