Re: git checkout crashes after server being updated to Debian X86_64

[Raffael Reichelt <raffael.reichelt@gmail.com>]

> Am 19.10.2016 um 15:27 schrieb Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>:
> 
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 10:17 PM, Raffael Reichelt
> <raffael.reichelt@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello!
>> 
>> I have a serious problem with git, After my provider had updated to a X86_64 architecture git crashes with various memory-related errors. This is happening remote when pushing to the repository from my local machine as well as trying it on a shell on the server itself.
>> 
>> This are the error-messages:
>> 
>> fatal: Out of memory, realloc failed
>> fatal: recursion detected in die handler
>> fatal: recursion detected in die handler
> 
> You other mail said memory is capped at 600MB, which should be a lot
> for normal repositories. If you set the environment variable
> GIT_ALLOC_LIMIT to maybe 500MB or lower (convert it to kilobytes
> first) and git attempts to allocate more than that (just that one
> time, not total mem) then it's caught and we get a glimpse of how much
> memory git may need. Unfortunately we can't get a stack trace or
> anything like that unless you rebuild Git from source.

This was no change: crashed with the same errors …

> 
>> or
>> fatal: unable to create threaded lstat
>> fatal: recursion detected in die handler
> 
> Hmm.. with "max user processes (-u) 42" we should be fine because we
> only create 20 threads max. What happens if you set core.preloadindex
> to false? Can it run until the end or hit some other fatal errors?
> 

This did the trick :) I just repeatedly did a forced checkout and it went until the end without errors
THX a lot!

Raffael