From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 08:03:48 GMT
Subject: Re: fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed
Message-ID: <81b0412b0704160103p15924e94idfaa445a30fe8e81@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704160853050.7680@beast.quantumfyre.co.uk>

On 4/16/07, Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > 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.