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Re: fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed

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Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 16, 2007, 08:03 UTC
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On 4/16/07, Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk> wrote:
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> >
> > Thats what I thought, but malloc continued to fail until the 72Mb file was removed.
> >
> > No, my server is running Debian. I had the push problem when logged in on that.
> > It worked when I pushed it from a Gentoo box.
>
> a problem with ulimit -m on the server?
>

Nah, a process gets killed in case of a limit hit. He gets malloc returning NULL.

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