# git-clone fails with out of memory,malloc failed7

3 messages from 2008-02-12 to 2008-02-12. Participants: pradeep singh rautela, Nicolas Pitre.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/12058

## pradeep singh rautela, 2008-02-12 15:57

Subject: git-clone fails with out of memory,malloc failed7
Message-ID: <6bc632150802120757r5dbeee6bmed9ccde4ca6f40d2@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/6bc632150802120757r5dbeee6bmed9ccde4ca6f40d2%40mail.gmail.com

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Hi All,

I compiled a fresh git 1.5.4 and tried to clone Ingo's kgdb-lite tree.
I got rather strange out of memory. malloc failed7 error.

I am using a 32 bit kernel on a pentium D processor with 1 GB of ram.

Is this a git issue or something else?
Can someone help me in telling me which is the correct place to report this?
Better if this is a known issue ?

isn't 1 GB of RAM enough for git???

luser@helvella:/opt/repo/archive$ sudo git-clone
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-kgdb.git
[sudo] password for luser:
Initialized empty Git repository in /opt/repo/archive/linux-2.6-kgdb/.git/
remote: Counting objects: 712950, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (124251/124251), done.
remote: Total 712950 (delta 591747), reused 708812 (delta 587713)
Receiving objects: 100% (712950/712950), 173.74 MiB | 40 KiB/s, done.
fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed7)
fatal: index-pack failed
fetch-pack from
'git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-kgdb.git'
failed.

ps: Please CC me, as I am not subscribed to the list.

Thanks,
           --Pradeep
-- 
Pradeep Singh Rautela
http://eagain.wordpress.com
http://emptydomain.googlepages.com

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## Nicolas Pitre, 2008-02-12 17:23

Subject: Re: git-clone fails with out of memory,malloc failed7
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0802121218280.2732@xanadu.home>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/alpine.LFD.1.00.0802121218280.2732%40xanadu.home
In-Reply-To: <6bc632150802120757r5dbeee6bmed9ccde4ca6f40d2@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, pradeep singh rautela wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I compiled a fresh git 1.5.4 and tried to clone Ingo's kgdb-lite tree.
> I got rather strange out of memory. malloc failed7 error.
> 
> I am using a 32 bit kernel on a pentium D processor with 1 GB of ram.
> 
> Is this a git issue or something else?
> Can someone help me in telling me which is the correct place to report this?

This is the right place.

> Better if this is a known issue ?

It is not.

> isn't 1 GB of RAM enough for git???

It is plenty sufficient with the repository you tried it on.

> luser@helvella:/opt/repo/archive$ sudo git-clone
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-kgdb.git
> [sudo] password for luser:

Why do you use sudo to run git?

> Initialized empty Git repository in /opt/repo/archive/linux-2.6-kgdb/.git/
> remote: Counting objects: 712950, done.
> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (124251/124251), done.
> remote: Total 712950 (delta 591747), reused 708812 (delta 587713)
> Receiving objects: 100% (712950/712950), 173.74 MiB | 40 KiB/s, done.
> fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed7)
> fatal: index-pack failed

I just cloned the above repository with Git v1.5.4 with no problem at 
all, and index-pack never used more than 52 megs of actual memory.

Puzzled.


Nicolas

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## pradeep singh rautela, 2008-02-12 17:52

Subject: Re: git-clone fails with out of memory,malloc failed7
Message-ID: <6bc632150802120952n2b6abbb4tea8cde0fddbf7a7c@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/6bc632150802120952n2b6abbb4tea8cde0fddbf7a7c%40mail.gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0802121218280.2732@xanadu.home>

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[...]
>
> > Better if this is a known issue ?
>
> It is not.
>
> > isn't 1 GB of RAM enough for git???
>
> It is plenty sufficient with the repository you tried it on.
>
> > luser@helvella:/opt/repo/archive$ sudo git-clone
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-kgdb.git
> > [sudo] password for luser:
>
> Why do you use sudo to run git?

because I(as luser :) ) did not have write permissions in the
directory where I intend to clone the repo.
>
> > Initialized empty Git repository in /opt/repo/archive/linux-2.6-kgdb/.git/
> > remote: Counting objects: 712950, done.
> > remote: Compressing objects: 100% (124251/124251), done.
> > remote: Total 712950 (delta 591747), reused 708812 (delta 587713)
> > Receiving objects: 100% (712950/712950), 173.74 MiB | 40 KiB/s, done.
> > fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed7)
> > fatal: index-pack failed
>
> I just cloned the above repository with Git v1.5.4 with no problem at
> all, and index-pack never used more than 52 megs of actual memory.
>
> Puzzled.

me too.Thought it may be some git issue so reported.
Seems like it is once in a blue moon situation.
Nevermind, thanks for reply.

Cu,
    --Pradeep

-- 
Pradeep Singh Rautela
http://eagain.wordpress.com
http://emptydomain.googlepages.com

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