Re: fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed

[Alan Larkin <nobrow@eircom.net>]

Alex Riesen wrote:
> Alan Larkin, Sun, Apr 15, 2007 21:06:53 +0200:
>>>> Its not a huge push Im trying to do here (<about 150Mb) but
>>>> always malloc fails!
>>> Any huge objects?
>>>
>> There were a couple of big files. I removed a 72Mb one (making 47Mb
>> the biggest one left in the project) and made the push and it
>> worked. I later pulled the project down to a different machine,
>> added the 72Mb file back in, and pushed to the server and it worked.
>> So apparently it's a platform specific problem. If anybody's
>> particularly interested I could replicate it under gdb and pass on
>> any info, but if not I wont ... job's done, Im happy.
> 
> 72Mb is nothing. Is it Windows/cygwin, by any chance? (I see the
> problem there sometimes. Tried debugging it, got into some ugly
> cygwin-windows interactions, threw up, did the same you did and tried
> to forget it all).
> 
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Thats what I thought, but malloc continued to fail until the 72Mb file was removed.

No, my server is running Debian. I had the push problem when logged in on that. It worked when I
pushed it from a Gentoo box.