From: Sham Rao <sham@styk.net>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Out of memory, malloc failed
Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 00:41:52 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20090509T003749-604@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4A049715.10407@styk.net
sham <sham <at> styk.net> writes:
>
> Can anyone shed some light on this? What can I do to get past this...
>
> #0 die (err=0x4bfb09 "Out of memory, malloc failed") at usage.c:71
> #1 0x000000000049ac8c in xmalloc (size=555680492) at wrapper.c:29
> #2 0x000000000048e59f in unpack_compressed_entry (p=0x71d690,
> ...Snip...
> #8 0x000000000046b42a in checkout_entry (ce=0x7ffff4d73080,
> state=0x7fffffffdb10, topath=<value optimized out>) at entry.c:233
> #9 0x000000000041488d in cmd_checkout (argc=<value optimized out>,
> argv=<value optimized out>, prefix=0x0) at builtin-checkout.c:141
> #10 0x0000000000404843 in handle_internal_command (argc=2,
> argv=0x7fffffffdde0) at git.c:241
> #11 0x0000000000404a5c in main (argc=2, argv=0x7fffffffdde0) at git.c:481
>
> Thanks,
> Sham
>
I was able to resolve this issue by changing limits via the ulimit command.
Upon increasing the values using ulimit -m WWWW and ulimit -v XXXX, the git
checkout worked (although slow).
-Sham
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2009-05-08 20:33 Out of memory, malloc failed sham
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