From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Erik Faye-Lund Subject: Re: Bug - crash on large commit Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 09:25:27 +0100 Message-ID: <40aa078e1003230125n5be565drb55fa7fdf731c72e@mail.gmail.com> References: <310ba29b220a70e5624819e6ef80bff0.squirrel@www.pkts.ca> Reply-To: kusmabite@gmail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: P Fudd X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Mar 23 09:25:50 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NtzQs-0005ul-4j for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 09:25:50 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754728Ab0CWIZb convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Mar 2010 04:25:31 -0400 Received: from mail-ww0-f46.google.com ([74.125.82.46]:57461 "EHLO mail-ww0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754696Ab0CWIZ3 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Mar 2010 04:25:29 -0400 Received: by wwe15 with SMTP id 15so3898793wwe.19 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 01:25:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:reply-to:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=SiXlofTJiPKdkrVWkQsyZLLJh2yYFrq7e6R9Y6NHFg4=; b=la5C2AMIOnpWs8W8MGYjB0XyOknSIVHjiWbDCRJ8IMBQhv0JsqvgM9LLZ9CbyCW3xa 7MEdkVZT9EjCD/BSyFdR615D7eCBmSuScQqGl9V6FkpiGVHG671SexfOlJdtIeqJvszK Ee6Jp4IDe9dXc1txafd+y4rRp4wlBDiIEEmy8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:reply-to:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=t6Oa9L+6gZWNOFQH/1jtg2Kii/l9d+wX1Sfhaf0qTET0vx8UNhpYEsGQzNAPXiWDhi +ZvpEFJgUwZgUDfU05oSk9YZsUf949m3I4xm3ttQef/GbPHWU8N/I3iJ4nCz7e9j6Ix3 IPyEiAJXg0q1WV7OTlhGO8k7EaArEPBZ9l5M8= Received: by 10.216.86.67 with SMTP id v45mr2280186wee.70.1269332727122; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 01:25:27 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <310ba29b220a70e5624819e6ef80bff0.squirrel@www.pkts.ca> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 12:36 AM, P Fudd 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. > =A0Committer: System Administrator > Your name and email address were configured automatically based > on your username and hostname. Please check that they are accurate. > You can suppress this message by setting them explicitly: > > =A0 =A0git config --global user.name "Your Name" > =A0 =A0git config --global user.email you@example.com > > If the identity used for this commit is wrong, you can fix it with: > > =A0 =A0git commit --amend --author=3D'Your Name ' > > git(4667) malloc: *** mmap(size=3D1964838912) failed (error code=3D12= ) > *** error: can't allocate region > *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug > git(4667) malloc: *** mmap(size=3D1964838912) failed (error code=3D12= ) > *** 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... --=20 Erik "kusma" Faye-Lund