Thanks for the reply. Yes I am using a 64-bit build of Git. The report is too large to attach to email so I've uploaded it here (~6MB tar.xz file): http://www.tempfiles.net/download/201210/267447/fast_import_crash18192.html On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 4:12 PM, Andrew Wong <andrew.kw.w@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 10/15/2012 11:53 AM, Uri Moszkowicz wrote: >> >> I'm trying to convert a CVS repository to Git using cvs2git. I was able to >> generate the dump file without problem but am unable to get Git to >> fast-import it. The dump file is 328GB and I ran git fast-import on a >> machine with 512GB of RAM. > > Just taking a wild guess here. Are you using 64bit version of git? If not, > maybe it'd help to try 64bit? > > >> fatal: Out of memory? mmap failed: Cannot allocate memory >> fast-import: dumping crash report to fast_import_crash_18192 >> error: git-fast-import died of signal 11 > > "fast-import" also produced a crash report. It might help to diagnose the > issue if you can post that report? > The report shouldn't be too big. And you might want to strip any sensitive > information before posting. -- 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