From: Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 07:54:04 GMT
Subject: Re: fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704160853050.7680@beast.quantumfyre.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <462329D8.4020302@eircom.net>

On Mon, 16 Apr 2007, Alan Larkin wrote:

> Alex Riesen wrote:
>> Alan Larkin, Sun, Apr 15, 2007 21:06:53 +0200:
>>>>> Its not a huge push Im trying to do here (<about 150Mb) but
>>>>> always malloc fails!
>>>> Any huge objects?
>>>>
>>> There were a couple of big files. I removed a 72Mb one (making 47Mb
>>> the biggest one left in the project) and made the push and it
>>> worked. I later pulled the project down to a different machine,
>>> added the 72Mb file back in, and pushed to the server and it worked.
>>> So apparently it's a platform specific problem. If anybody's
>>> particularly interested I could replicate it under gdb and pass on
>>> any info, but if not I wont ... job's done, Im happy.
>>
>> 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).
>>
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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?

-- 
Julian

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