Re: [PLUG] git failure

["Eric at Lucii.org" <eric@lucii.org>]

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Amir:

That was it!  There were some fairly large tar.gz files in there so I just drilled down and added all the other files /except/ those files and it worked.

Thanks,
Eric

On 08/09/2012 05:12 PM, Amir Tahvildaran wrote:
> How much/what are you adding?
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> This guy was adding large binary files: http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/quot-malloc-failed-quot-td2226237.html
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>> the git code assumes it can malloc() at least two blocks large enough for each file: one of the fully decompressed content, and another for the > fully compressed content. Try doing git add on a large file and its very likely malloc will fail due to ulimit issues, or you just don't have enough memory/address space to go around.
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> On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Eric at Lucii.org <eric@lucii.org <mailto:eric@lucii.org>> wrote:
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> What's happening here?
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> git add * fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed
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> It's a VM with 1GB RAM but no swap: free total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached Mem:       1048576     306168     742408          0          0          0 -/+ buffers/cache:     306168     742408 Swap:            0          0          0
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> I am NOT happy!
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