On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 11:52:44PM +0800, Hao Lee wrote: > Hi, > > I used to run 'git clone --depth=1' to get kernel source, because this > way is very lightweight. But today, I want to clone the whole git > repository with 'git clone > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git' > > Then, I encounter a problem. > > The output is : > > Cloning into 'linux-stable'... > remote: Counting objects: 5531619, done. > remote: Compressing objects: 100% (492978/492978), done. > error: index-pack died of signal 9531619), 777.26 MiB | 19.22 MiB/s > fatal: index-pack failed > > I do this on my VPS which has 768M memory. Is it because the memory is > not enough? If so, is it possible to limit the memory usage of Git? Hi Hao, Definatly looks like memory limit, I have the same issue when cloning on android devices. You can use git config file to limit the memory used by git for various operations: https://support.google.com/mail/accounts/answer/78754 Cheers, Craig > > Thanks! > Hao Lee > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
