Git-SVN memory error

From: Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@gmail.com>
Date: May 12, 2009, 17:04 UTC
Message-ID: <c6c947f60905121004v257e6f72m2a24de12c98dd1ba@mail.gmail.com>

Hi, list!

I'm importing a rather large SVN repository into Git. I'm doing it on a Synology DS508 NAS PPC box (don't ask me why :-) ). I'm getting an out of memory error when trying to import one of commits. Please help me to debug/workaround it.

Relevant system information below.

Alexander.

DiskStation> uname -a Linux DiskStation 2.6.24 #839 Wed Mar 25 18:30:32 CST 2009 ppc GNU/Linux

DiskStation> git --version git version 1.6.3

DiskStation> sudo ipkg info git
Package: git
Version: 1.6.3-1
Depends: zlib, openssl, libcurl, diffutils, rcs, expat
Suggests: git-manpages
Status: install user installed
Section: net
Architecture: powerpc
maintainer: NSLU2 Linux <nslu2-linux@yahoogroups.com>
MD5Sum: b92688e018f23fa7a82a504d073fe813
Size: 5872996
Filename: git_1.6.3-1_powerpc.ipk
Source: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.6.3.tar.gz
Description: GIT is a directory tree content manager that can be used
for distributed revision control.

DiskStation> free # That is actually AFTER git svn died.
              total         used         free       shared      buffers
Mem:       516172       501828        14344            0        62656
Swap:      2586456        29508      2556948
Total:      3102628       531336      2571292

DiskStation> git svn fetch # This is the second run. First one failed with the same message. Index mismatch: ba0c6593571c2f4b6b6ceff1b1326b30d0cd9495 != c633473cfe3dd92e536450e48cd1d9cb2da1cdd2 rereading fe4935bc22756ffdb430f94cd7ce4af898750edb

	A	File1.rar
        ...
	A	FileN.rar
fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed
hash-object -w --stdin-paths: command returned error: 128

error closing pipe: Bad file descriptor at /opt/libexec/git-core/git-svn line 0 error closing pipe: Bad file descriptor at /opt/libexec/git-core/git-svn line 0