From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:26:02 GMT
Subject: Re: Out of memory error during git push
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1008201324440.622@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <20100820145011.GF16190@burratino>

On Fri, 20 Aug 2010, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

> 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