From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
To: Alif Wahid <alif.wahid@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Git exhausts memory.
Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2011 11:05:38 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1104021103130.28032@xanadu.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTin=yUtzbZjs_92FHDfs62VFFuLHwg@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, 2 Apr 2011, Alif Wahid wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I'm using Git v1.7.1 on Ubuntu v10.10 and unfortunately Git seems to
> regularly exhaust the memory on my machine and fails to compress loose
> objects and/or collect garbage.
>
> My Intel based dual-core machine has 2 GB of RAM and 4 GB of swap
> space. I need to track a working tree with a handful of really large
> tarballs that rarely change and loads of really small text files that
> change frequently. What I'm seeing is that over time whenever "git gc"
> runs automatically it fails with the message "fatal: Out of memory,
> malloc failed". So I've been trying to manually run "git repack -ad
> --window-memory=1g --max-pack-size=1g" in the hope that Git will not
> exceed the physical memory. But I still get the same error message :(
Don't use --max-pack-size. That won't help here.
How large are those tar files?
Nicolas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-02 15:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-02 5:01 Git exhausts memory Alif Wahid
2011-04-02 15:05 ` Nicolas Pitre [this message]
2011-04-03 9:15 ` Alif Wahid
2011-04-03 15:18 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-04-04 12:52 ` Alif Wahid
2011-04-04 14:57 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-04-05 2:22 ` David Fries
2011-04-05 4:35 ` Alif Wahid
2011-04-05 11:13 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-04-05 11:26 ` Alif Wahid
2011-04-05 16:48 ` Holger Hellmuth
2011-04-05 17:06 ` Shawn Pearce
2011-04-05 17:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-05 20:56 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-04-05 22:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-05 22:19 ` Shawn Pearce
2011-04-06 0:34 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-04-06 15:51 ` Jay Soffian
2011-04-06 16:33 ` Junio C Hamano
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