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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Out of memory error during git push
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:50:11 -0500
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Thomas Jampen wrote:

> vm.overcommit_memory = 0
> 
> Do you propose to set this to '2' in order to disable overcommitting?

It might be interesting to try

 echo 1 >/proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory

but 0 is generally the only sane setting.