A bit OT: git - ridiculous memory requirements

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 03/30/2012 08:43 AM, Vaclav Mocek wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a cloned GCC git repository, on PC with 1.5GB of RAM and 3GB swap.
> 
> When I run "$git gc --aggressive", I will get after few hours an error:
> 
> $ git gc --aggressive
> Counting objects: 1332887, done.
> Delta compression using up to 2 threads.
> fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed (tried to allocate 4838335 bytes)
> error: failed to run repack
> $
> 
> 4.5GB of memory is not enough, what is that?

File a bug report

Rahul