On Thu, 10 Oct 2013 03:57:11 -0700 (PDT) praveenm mulimani <praveen.mulim...@gmail.com> wrote:
> We are using windows 7 to download the git source through repo > command. We are getting the below error (although we have 20 GB free > space). > > Fatal: Out of memory, malloc failied (tried to allocate 2306150400 > bytes ) > Git version: 1.8.3.msysgit.0 > > Git configuration details: > > pack.packsizelimit=2g > > pack.threads=1 > > pack.windowmemory=256m > > Please help us to resolve the error. Thanks in advance. malloc() deals with memory, not disk space. Here it tries to allocate 2.15GiB of memory. Git for Windows is a 32-bit application (unless you managed to somehow build your own version using a 64-bit compiler), and Windows sets a 2GiB cap on the amount of virtual memory each 32-bit process might use [1], and this space includes the process' own text segment and all the dynamically linked libraries which means the available memory space is even less that 2GiB. For some reason Git tried to allocate more than this amount. So... 1. The amount of free *disk* space you have has nothing to do with this error -- it's about allocating memory. 2. I'd say the pack.packSizeLimit should not affect the packing behaviour -- at least that's what I gather from the manual page. 3. pack.windowMemory *should* affect the packing behaviour. 4. From (2) and (3), it follows that the error has nothing to do with packing the objects in the Git database, and so tweaking pack.* options on the *client side* supposedly has nothing to do with the problem (but might have sense for the server -- I don't know for sure). So the next question: is this error local or remote? Can you copy and paste the printout of the *whole* cloning session? This could allow us to discern the side this error happens at. Preferably also have GIT_TRACE=1 set in the environment before running the clone command -- the printout will be more detailed. We need a los more details, that is. 1. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa366912 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
