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? Yes. > If so, is it possible to limit the memory usage of Git? Not really, try giving your VM more memory, the kernel tree is bigger than 768M. good luck! greg k-h _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
