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Re: Out of memory error during git push

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Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Date
Aug 20, 2010, 17:26 UTC
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On Fri, 20 Aug 2010, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
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> Thomas Jampen wrote:
> 
> > vm.overcommit_memory = 0
> > 
> > Do you propose to set this to '2' in order to disable overcommitting?
> 
> It might be interesting to try
> 
>  echo 1 >/proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory
> 
> but 0 is generally the only sane setting.

Don't know the meaning for specific values, but you definitively don't want to turn off memory overcommit.

Nicolas
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