On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
Somehow we forgot to turn save_commit_buffer off while walking
the reachable objects. Releasing the memory for commit object
data that we do not use matters for large projects (for example,
about 90MB is saved while traversing linux-2.6 history).
Heh. Maybe we should just make the default the other way? It's probably
pretty easy to find any users that suddenly start segfaulting ;)
I am trying to import a subversion repository and have yet to be able to
suck down the whole thing without segfaulting. It is a large repository.
Works fine until about the last 10% and then runs out of memory.
open3: fork failed: Cannot allocate memory at /usr/bin/git-svn line 2711
512 at /usr/bin/git-svn line 446
main::fetch_lib() called at /usr/bin/git-svn line 314
main::fetch() called at /usr/bin/git-svn line 173
I need to try the "partial download" script and see if that helps.
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