Re: "malloc failed"

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jan 27, 2009, 18:02 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0901271900260.3586@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <878wow7pth.fsf@mcbain.luannocracy.com>

Hi,

On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, David Abrahams wrote:

> I've been abusing Git for a purpose it wasn't intended to serve: 
> archiving a large number of files with many duplicates and 
> near-duplicates.

Hah! My first UGFWIINI contender! Unfortunately, I listed that purpose explicitely already...

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> Every once in a while, when trying to do something really big, it tells 
> me "malloc failed" and bails out (I think it's during "git add" but 
> because of the way I issued the commands I can't tell: it could have 
> been a commit or a gc).  This is on a 64-bit linux machine with 8G of 
> ram and plenty of swap space, so I'm surprised.

Yes, I am surprised, too. I would expect that some kind of arbitrary user-specifiable limit hit you. Haven't had time to look at the code, though.

Ciao, Dscho