Re: "malloc failed"

[Pau Garcia i Quiles <pgquiles@elpauer.org>]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 6:02 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

> How big is the repository? How big are the biggest files? I have a
> 3.5G repo with files ranging from a few bytes to about 180M. I've never
> run into malloc problems or gone into swap on my measly 1G box.
> How does your dataset compare?

I also have malloc problems but only on Windows, on Linux it works fine.

My case: I have a 500 MB repository with a 1GB working tree, with
binary files ranging from 100KB to 50MB and a few thousand source
files.

I have two branches ('master' and 'cmake') and the latter has suffered
a huge hierarchy reorganization.

When I merge 'master' in 'cmake', if I use the 'subtree' strategy, it
works fine. If I use any other strategy, after a couple of minutes I
receive a "malloc failed" and the tree is all messed up. As I said, on
Linux it works fine, so maybe it's a Windows-specific problem.

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Pau Garcia i Quiles
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