Re: error: git-fast-import died of signal 11

From: Uri Moszkowicz <uri@4refs.com>
Date: Oct 15, 2012, 21:28 UTC
Message-ID: <CAMJd5ARTmud_nrUKF8USXJAKVwvLH1gSmhys2o_mjimTW5B+Vg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <507C7C35.7080906@gmail.com>

Thanks for the reply. Yes I am using a 64-bit build of Git. The report is too large to attach to email so I've uploaded it here (~6MB tar.xz file):

http://www.tempfiles.net/download/201210/267447/fast_import_crash18192.html

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 4:12 PM, Andrew Wong <andrew.kw.w@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 10/15/2012 11:53 AM, Uri Moszkowicz wrote:
>>
>> I'm trying to convert a CVS repository to Git using cvs2git. I was able to
>> generate the dump file without problem but am unable to get Git to
>> fast-import it. The dump file is 328GB and I ran git fast-import on a
>> machine with 512GB of RAM.
>
> Just taking a wild guess here. Are you using 64bit version of git? If not,
> maybe it'd help to try 64bit?
>
>
>> fatal: Out of memory? mmap failed: Cannot allocate memory
>> fast-import: dumping crash report to fast_import_crash_18192
>> error: git-fast-import died of signal 11
>
> "fast-import" also produced a crash report. It might help to diagnose the
> issue if you can post that report?
> The report shouldn't be too big. And you might want to strip any sensitive
> information before posting.