Re: git status --> Out of memory, realloc failed

["René Scharfe" <l.s.r@web.de>]

Am 25.02.2017 um 11:13 schrieb Carsten Fuchs:
> Dear Git group,
>
> I use Git at a web hosting service, where my user account has a memory
> limit of 768 MB:
>
> (uiserver):p7715773:~$ uname -a
> Linux infongp-de15 3.14.0-ui16322-uiabi1-infong-amd64 #1 SMP Debian
> 3.14.79-2~ui80+4 (2016-11-17) x86_64 GNU/Linux

What's the output of "ulimit -a"?

> (uiserver):p7715773:~$ git --version
> git version 2.1.4

That's quite old.  Can you try a more recent version easily (2.12.0 just 
came out)?  I don't remember a specific fix, and memory usage perhaps 
even increased with newer versions, but ruling out already fixed issues 
would be nice.

> (uiserver):p7715773:~/cafu$ git gc
> Zähle Objekte: 44293, Fertig.
> Komprimiere Objekte: 100% (24534/24534), Fertig.
> Schreibe Objekte: 100% (44293/44293), Fertig.
> Total 44293 (delta 17560), reused 41828 (delta 16708)
>
> (uiserver):p7715773:~/cafu$ git status
> fatal: Out of memory, realloc failed
> fatal: recursion detected in die handler
>
> The repository is tracking about 19000 files which together take 260 MB.
> The git server version is 2.7.4.1.g5468f9e (Bitbucket)

Is your repository publicly accessible?

René