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Subject: Re: fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 10:03:48 +0200
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On 4/16/07, Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > 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?
>

Nah, a process gets killed in case of a limit hit.
He gets malloc returning NULL.