On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 12:05:11AM -0700, Emmanuel Puerto wrote: > Yes I have more that 2 Go available when a do it, and after this > allocation error if I try to do a 'git add' with a 9Go file, I did not > have any issue. It may be that doing a whole bunch of files in one process is leading to some memory fragmentation that doesn't let malloc get a contiguous 2G slice. I'm not sure what else to suggest trying, except perhaps to search the list archives for past discussions on memory fragmentation. Maybe somebody else has suggestions. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html