Re: [PATCH] Wrap inflateInit to retry allocation after releasing pack memory

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Jan 8, 2009, 16:14 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0901080813291.3283@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <20090108153410.GB16840@spearce.org>

On Thu, 8 Jan 2009, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

> 
> I still think we should try to reduce pack memory usage when we get
> oom from zlib and retry the current operation once.  We do it almost
> everywhere else and it works relatively well.

Oh, I agree.

It's just that I wanted to verify that people who see this problem actually see the message, and that we confirm that it is due to this and nothing else.

			Linus

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