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From: Andrew Wong <andrew.kw.w@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: error: git-fast-import died of signal 11
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 17:12:21 -0400
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On 10/15/2012 11:53 AM, Uri Moszkowicz wrote:
> I'm trying to convert a CVS repository to Git using cvs2git. I was able to
> generate the dump file without problem but am unable to get Git to
> fast-import it. The dump file is 328GB and I ran git fast-import on a
> machine with 512GB of RAM.
Just taking a wild guess here. Are you using 64bit version of git? If 
not, maybe it'd help to try 64bit?

> fatal: Out of memory? mmap failed: Cannot allocate memory
> fast-import: dumping crash report to fast_import_crash_18192
> error: git-fast-import died of signal 11
"fast-import" also produced a crash report. It might help to diagnose 
the issue if you can post that report?
The report shouldn't be too big. And you might want to strip any 
sensitive information before posting.