Re: fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed

[Alan Larkin <nobrow@eircom.net>]

Alex Riesen wrote:
> On 4/16/07, Alan Larkin <nobrow@eircom.net> wrote:
>> > 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).
>>
>> 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.
> 
> Ok, now _that_ is interesting... Any limits on that server?
> What git version?  There were some memory leaks fixed recently...
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Ah, perhaps youre on to something there. The version Im running on the server is 1.4.4.4 (from apt
package manager), but on my own machine (from whence the push was successful) its 1.5.0.5. Still,
youd expect the problem to have effected more people if its a leak or something in the older version.