On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Emmanuel Puerto wrote: > > > > Many operations in git assume that a whole file can be held in memory at > > once. Do you actually have 2G available on the machine? Are there any OS > > limits that might be a problem? > > Thanks for your answer Jeff, > > 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. Can you add the 2GB files individually, using for i in All-f00?.vmdk; do git add $i; done or similar? It does sound like an unlucky malloc VM space fragmentation issue, although since the files you add are the same size I'd have not really expected that with any normal malloc library. But with some mixed small and large allocations, I could imagine that the fragmentation happens, and you end up having huge areas that aren't _quite_ useful for the next file due to having some small allocation taking part of it. Linus -- 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