From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: When I clone the kernel source, I encounter a fatal error.
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2016 17:06:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161108160653.GA32073@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+PpKPkpTR0YE7354kFmJQ-Ooz69uTvA9LA7XGgPttA0pND_xg@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 11:52:44PM +0800, Hao Lee wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I used to run 'git clone --depth=1' to get kernel source, because this
> way is very lightweight. But today, I want to clone the whole git
> repository with 'git clone
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git'
>
> Then, I encounter a problem.
>
> The output is :
>
> Cloning into 'linux-stable'...
> remote: Counting objects: 5531619, done.
> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (492978/492978), done.
> error: index-pack died of signal 9531619), 777.26 MiB | 19.22 MiB/s
> fatal: index-pack failed
>
> I do this on my VPS which has 768M memory. Is it because the memory is
> not enough?
Yes.
> If so, is it possible to limit the memory usage of Git?
Not really, try giving your VM more memory, the kernel tree is bigger
than 768M.
good luck!
greg k-h
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2016-11-08 15:52 When I clone the kernel source, I encounter a fatal error Hao Lee
2016-11-08 16:02 ` Craig Inches
[not found] ` <20161108160750.GA6384@battlestar.xayto.local>
2016-11-09 4:01 ` Hao Lee
2016-11-08 16:06 ` Greg KH [this message]
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