(+cc: Nicolas, who knows the packing code pretty well) Hi, Thomas Jampen wrote: > I'm experiencing the following error while pushing a git repo (home > directory) to my QNAP TS-210: > > user@mypc:~$ git push origin master > Counting objects: 12532, done. > Delta compression using up to 2 threads. > Compressing objects: 100% (8974/8974), done. > fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed, 986.06 MiB | 1.65 MiB/s > error: pack-objects died of signal 13 What version of git are you using? Do you have overcommit accounting enabled? I am not sure this is the problem you are running into, but pack-objects like many other parts of git uses mmap() to read packfiles, which can make the address space usage high. > I've searched the internet and found suggestions to try to repack with > lower values for 'depth', 'window' and 'windowMemory'. I used 3, 3, 50 > respectively, but a push after the repack command resulted in the same > error. > > I tried git fsck which reported a few dangling blobs only and I got the > same error again during the next push. > > I watched /proc/meminfo and /proc/swaps on the NAS while pushing and saw > that there are always 20-50MB of free RAM and that from 512MB swap space > only about 180MB are used. I don't know --- this is out of my depth. :) Good luck, Jonathan -- 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