Hi René,
Am 02.03.2017 um 21:04 schrieb René Scharfe:
When I use ulimit -v with lower and lower numbers I can provoke mmap failures on
bigger pack files, but not the realloc failures that you're seeing. And your
packs should be only up to 20MB anyway (you can check that with "ls -l
.git/objects/pack/*.pack").
Yes, there are 9 of them, all about 20 MB in size.
So a shot in the dark: Do you have a lot of untracked files? You could check by
cloning your repository locally (which copies only tracked contents). Does "git
status" work on the clone?
I had about 40 modified or untracked files with a combined file size of
about 5 MB.
Before I got your latest mail, I tried something else: Instead of
connecting to the system with the repository via SSH as usual, I
accessed the repository by mounting its file system via gvfs-mount onto
my local desktop machine. Then I used my local, normally working Git to
commit all modified and some untracked files (and deleted those that
were left). Running `git status` and other commands took a very long
time over a network connection of only 6 MBit/s, but eventually I got
everything committed and pushed.
Quite in the spirit of your above words, getting rid of untracked files
helped: Logging normally via SSH into the remote machine again, `git
status` ran normally.
Only then did I see your mail and got another clone, where `git status`
worked equally well – but then `git diff` failed in a similar manner,
continuing the problems of `git status`:
(uiserver):p7715773:~/__TEST__$ git clone
https://CarstenF@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/CarstenF/website-cafu.git
Cloning into 'website-cafu'...
Password for 'https://CarstenF@xxxxxxxxxxxxx':
remote: Counting objects: 44359, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (28777/28777), done.
remote: Total 44359 (delta 19201), reused 38661 (delta 14143)
Receiving objects: 100% (44359/44359), 168.28 MiB | 20.95 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (19201/19201), done.
Checking connectivity... done.
Checking out files: 100% (18524/18524), done.
(uiserver):p7715773:~/__TEST__$ cd website-cafu/
(uiserver):p7715773:~/__TEST__/website-cafu$ git status
On branch master
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.
nothing to commit, working directory clean
(uiserver):p7715773:~/__TEST__/website-cafu$ git diff
fatal: unable to create threaded lstat
(uiserver):p7715773:~/__TEST__/website-cafu$ git diff
fatal: Out of memory, realloc failed
fatal: Out of memory, realloc failed
fatal: Out of memory, realloc failed
fatal: recursion detected in die handler
Another one, darker yet: Does "git config core.preloadIndex 0" help?
That's it! :-)
Once that was set, both `git status` and `git diff` worked normally again!
I cannot test `git status` right now in the same situation as before, as
I no longer have a working directory that is "as dirty" as before, but
the above setting seems to fix the problem promptly and thoroughly!
Many thanks for your help! :-)
Best regards,
Carsten