Re: git push failing, unpacker error

From: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 9, 2007, 18:09 UTC
Message-ID: <9e4733910711091009q2c6409fdj75cf8051d073c9c5@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vtznvtii4.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On 11/9/07, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> "Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On 11/9/07, Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I updated both sides to current git and it still fails. How do I debug this?
> >> What's causing this, "error: pack-objects died with strange error"?
> >
> > My remote host is running 2.4.32, is git ok on that kernel?
>
> No problem that I am aware of.  We are not *that* intimate with
> the kernel.
>
> Do "git-fsck --full" on both repositories pass?

I've just discovered that the hosting company has a mechanism for killing processes that it believes are consuming too much memory. When git does it's mmap's it looks like it is using over 512MB of memory which causes it to get zapped. At least I think this is what is happening.

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Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com