From: Alex Riesen Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 09:21:15 GMT Subject: Re: fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed Message-ID: <81b0412b0704160221o269fbd6al133a44148c75e38a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <46232FAC.4080506@eircom.net> On 4/16/07, Alan Larkin wrote: > >> > 72Mb is nothing. Is it Windows/cygwin, by any chance? (I see the > >> > problem there sometimes. Tried debugging it, got into some ugly > >> > cygwin-windows interactions, threw up, did the same you did and tried > >> > to forget it all). > >> > >> 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. > > > > Ok, now _that_ is interesting... Any limits on that server? > > What git version? There were some memory leaks fixed recently... > > Ah, perhaps youre on to something there. The version Im running on the server is > 1.4.4.4 (from apt package manager), but on my own machine (from whence the push > was successful) its 1.5.0.5. Still, youd expect the problem to have effected more > people if its a leak or something in the older version. That's how the leaks were found: people were affected and complained :) But it also a bit of unusual repo you have: not many have objects more the 10Mb in their sources. Anyway, give the new version a try. Maybe it was fixed, or maybe we have a chance to improve the current version.