Re: fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed

On 4/16/07, Alan Larkin [off-list ref] wrote:

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72Mb is nothing. Is it Windows/cygwin, by any chance? (I see the
problem there sometimes. Tried debugging it, got into some ugly
cygwin-windows interactions, threw up, did the same you did and tried
to forget it all).

Thats what I thought, but malloc continued to fail until the 72Mb file
was removed.

No, my server is running Debian. I had the push problem when logged in
on that.
It worked when I pushed it from a Gentoo box.

Ok, now _that_ is interesting... Any limits on that server?
What git version?  There were some memory leaks fixed recently...

Ah, perhaps youre on to something there. The version Im running on the server is
1.4.4.4 (from apt package manager), but on my own machine (from whence the push
was successful) its 1.5.0.5. Still, youd expect the problem to have effected more
people if its a leak or something in the older version.

That's how the leaks were found: people were affected and complained :)
But it also a bit of unusual repo you have: not many have objects more
the 10Mb in their sources. Anyway, give the new version a try. Maybe it
was fixed, or maybe we have a chance to improve the current version.