Re: Bug - crash on large commit

[Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@googlemail.com>]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 12:36 AM, P Fudd <fink@ch.pkts.ca> wrote:
> Bug 2: git died with an out-of-memory error on the commit:
> ------
> # git commit -a
> [master (root-commit) 62b52e2] The initial checkin of the whole hard disk.
>  Committer: System Administrator <root@Mac-Pro.local>
> Your name and email address were configured automatically based
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> You can suppress this message by setting them explicitly:
>
>    git config --global user.name "Your Name"
>    git config --global user.email you@example.com
>
> If the identity used for this commit is wrong, you can fix it with:
>
>    git commit --amend --author='Your Name <you@example.com>'
>
> git(4667) malloc: *** mmap(size=1964838912) failed (error code=12)
> *** error: can't allocate region
> *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
> git(4667) malloc: *** mmap(size=1964838912) failed (error code=12)
> *** error: can't allocate region
> *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug
> fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed
> [Mac-Pro:/] shadministrator# git version
> git version 1.7.0.2

Is your git built as a 32-bit program? If so, it can't handle files
larger than ~1-2 gb, which looks like it might be the case here...

-- 
Erik "kusma" Faye-Lund