Re: git-commit fatal: Out of memory? mmap failed: Bad file descriptor

On Jan 11, 2008 11:11 PM, Brandon Casey [off-list ref] wrote:

I got this message from git-commit:

$ git commit -a
<edit message, :wq>
fatal: Out of memory? mmap failed: Bad file descriptor
Create commit <my_prompt_string>

The exit status was 128.
Looks like the commit was successful though.
The partial message 'Create commit ' comes from print_summary()
in builtin-commit.c which is _after_ the actual commit.

$ git --version
git version 1.5.4.rc2.84.gf85fd-dirty

I had the same message about one week ago for few times, same
symptoms, I didn't had the time to dig it out and today it seems no
more happening.

It was compiled with NO_CURL=1. The dirtiness comes from the
patches I submitted for relink earlier today.

The other possible clue is that this repo is on NFS.

I don't use any NFS mount.


Marco