Re: VCP allocation problems

Barrie Slaymaker <[email protected]> Thu, 29 Jul 2004 16:07:28 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.version-control.revml
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On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 12:01:14PM -0700, Sammy Shreibati wrote:
> Hi, 
>     I found an error that has come up twice already. VCP seems to have
> trouble with large files.

Note that VCP is just reporting a CVS error here; CVS is trying to
allocate 51M of RAM at one go:

> cvs: cvs [checkout aborted]: out of memory; can not allocate 51030699 bytes
> cvs -Q -z9 -d/home/sammys/cvs checkout -r1.1 -p CVSROOT/fbus/regr/pcmcia/test_pcmcia_amem/script/nor_init.dat returned 1
> not 0
> stderr:
>     cvs [checkout aborted]: out of memory; can not allocate 51030699 bytes

How much virtual memory (swap + RAM, roughly) is in this machine, and
how much free when VCP goes to do this?

Thanks,

Barrie