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 09:02:56 +0100 Message-ID: <46232DB0.3010303@eircom.net> References: <461FBD02.6050105@eircom.net> <462277CD.5020609@eircom.net> <20070415214050.GA4417@steel.home> <462329D8.4020302@eircom.net> 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 10:03:14 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 1HdMB1-000354-6d for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 10:03:07 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964988AbXDPIC6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Apr 2007 04:02:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964974AbXDPICz (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Apr 2007 04:02:55 -0400 Received: from mail05.svc.cra.dublin.eircom.net ([159.134.118.21]:8247 "HELO mail05.svc.cra.dublin.eircom.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S964959AbXDPICq (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Apr 2007 04:02:46 -0400 Received: (qmail 41549 messnum 3332698 invoked from network[86.42.230.88/unknown]); 16 Apr 2007 08:02:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.6?) (86.42.230.88) by mail05.svc.cra.dublin.eircom.net (qp 41549) with SMTP; 16 Apr 2007 08:02:45 -0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070330) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Julian Phillips wrote: > On Mon, 16 Apr 2007, Alan Larkin wrote: > >> 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. > > a problem with ulimit -m on the server? > Unlimited ...