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From: "Alfred M\. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: git-svn -- out of memory
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 10:37:41 +0100
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In-reply-to: message from Eric Wong on Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:38:35 -0800
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   > when doing a `git svn clone' on a subversion repository that contains
   > a large file (>1GiB), `git svn' dies with the following:
   > 
   > ams@trillian:~$ git svn clone REPO -T trunk -b branches -t tags
   > [...]
   > fatal: Out of memory? mmap failed: Cannot allocate memory
   > hash-object -w --stdin-paths: command returned error: 128
   > 
   > error closing pipe: Bad file descriptor at /usr/local/bin/libexec/git-core//git-svn line 0
   > error closing pipe: Bad file descriptor at /usr/local/bin/libexec/git-core//git-svn line 0
   > 
   > Doing a `git repack' doesn't help either.  Anyone got a clue how to
   > either solve, or work around this?
   > 
   > git version 1.6.1.3

   Hi Alfred,

   Core git requires objects to be able to fit into (virtual) memory.
   Adding more swap space should solve the problem for you, but this is not
   only a git-svn problem.

In this case, the machine has 32G RAM, including ~20G swap.  So I do
not think that this is the case, it could be I suppose...

Cheers.