Thanks! --window-memory=50m worked for my project. 256m was still throwing error. Probably real memory consumption is close to threads number * window memory. On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 7:20 PM, David Michael Barr <davidbarr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Alexander Kostikov > <alex.kostikov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I'm new to git and I'm getting the following out of memory error on git gc: >> >> $ git gc >> Counting objects: 80818, done. >> Delta compression using up to 8 threads. >> fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed (tried to allocate 24359675 bytes) >> error: failed to run repack >> >> The only advice I found in the internet suggested to run repack with >> --window-memory parameter specified. But this call also fails: >> >> $ git repack -adf --window-memory=0 >> Counting objects: 80818, done. >> Delta compression using up to 8 threads. >> warning: suboptimal pack - out of memory >> fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed (tried to allocate 24356363 bytes) >> >> How do I cleanup my repository? >> >> $ git version >> git version 1.7.6.msysgit.0 >> >> OS: Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 (x64) >> Physical memory: 24 GB >> The commands listed were executed under x64 console process. >> >> -- >> Thanks, >> Alexander Kostikov >> -- >> 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 >> > > Hi, > > My understanding is that msysgit is a 32-bit build. > So if your existing pack is ~2GB, repack will fail. > Also, I think that setting window-memory to 0 > means no limit, which is not what you want. > One value I have seen suggested is 256m. > In my experience, peak memory consumption of > repack is proportional to the value of --window, > so you might want to try tweaking that. > There are quite a few config parameters that > affect the memory consumption of repack. > > -- > David Barr > -- Your sincerely, Alexander Kostikov -- 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