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From: "Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
To: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git push failing, unpacker error
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 13:09:16 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9e4733910711091009q2c6409fdj75cf8051d073c9c5@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vtznvtii4.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On 11/9/07, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> "Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On 11/9/07, Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I updated both sides to current git and it still fails. How do I debug this?
> >> What's causing this, "error: pack-objects died with strange error"?
> >
> > My remote host is running 2.4.32, is git ok on that kernel?
>
> No problem that I am aware of.  We are not *that* intimate with
> the kernel.
>
> Do "git-fsck --full" on both repositories pass?

I've just discovered that the hosting company has a mechanism for
killing processes that it believes are consuming too much memory. When
git does it's mmap's it looks like it is using over 512MB of memory
which causes it to get zapped. At least I think this is what is
happening.

-- 
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com

  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-09 18:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-09  5:55 git push failing, unpacker error Jon Smirl
2007-11-09 14:37 ` Jon Smirl
2007-11-09 14:43   ` Jon Smirl
2007-11-09 17:51     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-09 18:09       ` Jon Smirl [this message]
2007-11-09 19:27         ` Nicolas Pitre

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