On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, pradeep singh rautela wrote:

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> 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.

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> Better if this is a known issue ?

It is not.

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> isn't 1 GB of RAM enough for git???

It is plenty sufficient with the repository you tried it on.

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> 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?

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> 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
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