On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, pradeep singh rautela wrote: > Hi All, > > I compiled a fresh git 1.5.4 and tried to clone Ingo's kgdb-lite tree. > I got rather strange out of memory. malloc failed7 error. > > I am using a 32 bit kernel on a pentium D processor with 1 GB of ram. > > Is this a git issue or something else? > Can someone help me in telling me which is the correct place to report this? This is the right place. > Better if this is a known issue ? It is not. > isn't 1 GB of RAM enough for git??? It is plenty sufficient with the repository you tried it on. > luser@helvella:/opt/repo/archive$ sudo git-clone > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-kgdb.git > [sudo] password for luser: Why do you use sudo to run git? > Initialized empty Git repository in /opt/repo/archive/linux-2.6-kgdb/.git/ > remote: Counting objects: 712950, done. > remote: Compressing objects: 100% (124251/124251), done. > remote: Total 712950 (delta 591747), reused 708812 (delta 587713) > Receiving objects: 100% (712950/712950), 173.74 MiB | 40 KiB/s, done. > fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed7) > fatal: index-pack failed I just cloned the above repository with Git v1.5.4 with no problem at all, and index-pack never used more than 52 megs of actual memory. Puzzled. Nicolas - 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
