On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Sean Carolan <scarolan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have run into a snag with my CVS installation:
>
> [scarolan@neinei:~]$ cvs co -P installfiles
> cvs checkout: Updating installfiles
> cvs [checkout aborted]: out of memory; can not allocate 1022462837 bytes
>
> Unfortunately we have a couple of large binary .tgz files in the
> repository. I was able to check them in but as you can see I can't
> check them out because of memory limitations. I have even added 2
> more gigs of swap space but it still errors out. I noticed while
> watching it that it doesn't seem to use all the swap space. Any
> pointers?
Checking in binary files into CVS or any repository control system is
usually a broken thing. You want to either check in the stuff inside
the tar ball seperately (if its going to change), or just copy it into
the archive by updating CVSROOT/cvswrappers
*.tar -k 'b' -m 'COPY'
*.tbz -k 'b' -m 'COPY'
*.tgz -k 'b' -m 'COPY'
--
Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed
in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"
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