From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2011 15:05:38 GMT
Subject: Re: Git exhausts memory.
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1104021103130.28032@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTin=yUtzbZjs_92FHDfs62VFFuLHwg@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, 2 Apr 2011, Alif Wahid wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> I'm using Git v1.7.1 on Ubuntu v10.10 and unfortunately Git seems to
> regularly exhaust the memory on my machine and fails to compress loose
> objects and/or collect garbage.
> 
> My Intel based dual-core machine has 2 GB of RAM and 4 GB of swap
> space. I need to track a working tree with a handful of really large
> tarballs that rarely change and loads of really small text files that
> change frequently. What I'm seeing is that over time whenever "git gc"
> runs automatically it fails with the message "fatal: Out of memory,
> malloc failed". So I've been trying to manually run "git repack -ad
> --window-memory=1g --max-pack-size=1g" in the hope that Git will not
> exceed the physical memory. But I still get the same error message :(

Don't use --max-pack-size.  That won't help here.

How large are those tar files?


Nicolas