From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nicolas Pitre Subject: Re: Out of memory error during git push Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 13:26:02 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <20100820125119.GA9762@burratino> <23639398.583.1282314377177.JavaMail.root@hermes> <20100820145011.GF16190@burratino> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: Thomas Jampen , git@vger.kernel.org To: Jonathan Nieder X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Aug 20 19:26:12 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OmVM3-0002Tx-BY for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:26:11 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751828Ab0HTR0F (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Aug 2010 13:26:05 -0400 Received: from relais.videotron.ca ([24.201.245.36]:13630 "EHLO relais.videotron.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751018Ab0HTR0E (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Aug 2010 13:26:04 -0400 Received: from xanadu.home ([66.130.28.92]) by VL-MR-MR001.ip.videotron.ca (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-8.01 (built Dec 16 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTP id <0L7G00B98OFE6G60@VL-MR-MR001.ip.videotron.ca> for git@vger.kernel.org; Fri, 20 Aug 2010 13:26:02 -0400 (EDT) X-X-Sender: nico@xanadu.home In-reply-to: <20100820145011.GF16190@burratino> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, 20 Aug 2010, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Thomas Jampen wrote: > > > vm.overcommit_memory = 0 > > > > Do you propose to set this to '2' in order to disable overcommitting? > > It might be interesting to try > > echo 1 >/proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory > > but 0 is generally the only sane setting. Don't know the meaning for specific values, but you definitively don't want to turn off memory overcommit. Nicolas