From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:14:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Wrap inflateInit to retry allocation after releasing pack memory
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