Re: Problems getting rid of large files using git-filter-branch

From: Øyvind Harboe <oyvind.harboe@zylin.com>
Date: Jan 7, 2009, 10:15 UTC
Message-ID: <c09652430901070215p436db79boae4c56bfa1afbc1a@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0901071101480.7496@intel-tinevez-2-302>

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Øyvind Harboe wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Johannes Schindelin
>> <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>>
>> > $ git verify-pack -v $PACK | grep -v "^chain " | sort -n -k 4
>>
>> I have never used the git verify-pack command, but I'm pretty sure the
>> "Terminated" string isn't the normal output :-)
>>
>> $ git verify-pack -v
>> .git/objects/pack/pack-1e039b82d8ae53ef5ec3614a3021466663cc70a4
>> Terminated
>
> I did
>
>        $ git grep Terminated
>
> and came up empty :-)
>
> Seriously, I guess this could be some OOM thing.  We _should_ handle this
> more gracefully, but it is possible that some uncatchable condition hits
> you, such as out-of-stack-space.
>
> I'd try running the command either with strace or with gdb, and I'd look
> at $? after the command returns, to find out what is actually happening.

After some investigation it turns out that my server has 228mByte of RAM available. It is a virtual server running CentOS, hence the strange number and ridiciulously tiny amount of memory(these days).

Now the strange thing is that I'm not getting this error message this morning...

How would git behave if it ran out of memory?

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