From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Larkin Subject: Re: fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 08:46:32 +0100 Message-ID: <462329D8.4020302@eircom.net> References: <461FBD02.6050105@eircom.net> <462277CD.5020609@eircom.net> <20070415214050.GA4417@steel.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Apr 16 09:46:28 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HdLuu-0004wL-3s for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 09:46:28 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932382AbXDPHqX (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Apr 2007 03:46:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932386AbXDPHqX (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Apr 2007 03:46:23 -0400 Received: from mail16.svc.cra.dublin.eircom.net ([159.134.118.215]:24730 "HELO mail16.svc.cra.dublin.eircom.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932382AbXDPHqX (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Apr 2007 03:46:23 -0400 Received: (qmail 30629 messnum 3618224 invoked from network[86.42.230.88/unknown]); 16 Apr 2007 07:46:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.6?) (86.42.230.88) by mail16.svc.cra.dublin.eircom.net (qp 30629) with SMTP; 16 Apr 2007 07:46:20 -0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070330) In-Reply-To: <20070415214050.GA4417@steel.home> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Alex Riesen wrote: > Alan Larkin, Sun, Apr 15, 2007 21:06:53 +0200: >>>> Its not a huge push Im trying to do here (>>> always malloc fails! >>> Any huge objects? >>> >> There were a couple of big files. I removed a 72Mb one (making 47Mb >> the biggest one left in the project) and made the push and it >> worked. I later pulled the project down to a different machine, >> added the 72Mb file back in, and pushed to the server and it worked. >> So apparently it's a platform specific problem. If anybody's >> particularly interested I could replicate it under gdb and pass on >> any info, but if not I wont ... job's done, Im happy. > > 72Mb is nothing. Is it Windows/cygwin, by any chance? (I see the > problem there sometimes. Tried debugging it, got into some ugly > cygwin-windows interactions, threw up, did the same you did and tried > to forget it all). > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > Thats what I thought, but malloc continued to fail until the 72Mb file was removed. No, my server is running Debian. I had the push problem when logged in on that. It worked when I pushed it from a Gentoo box.