[darcs-users] Unable to record for the first time: heap exhaustion

[zooko]

On Apr 19, 2008, at 6:40 AM, Fernando Rodriguez wrote:
>
> I'm trying to get started with darcs without much luck. I already  
> initialized
> a repository with half a gigabyte of files and managed to add  
> everything.

Hello Fernando!

This is a known issue with darcs.  Appended is a list of tickets that  
are perhaps relevant to your problem.  The most relevant tickets are  
probably issue80, or issue162, or perhaps issue631.

> What am I doing wrong? O:-)

Nothing, but perhaps you could try the workaround of doing "darcs  
add" for only one file or a subset of the files at a time instead of  
doing darcs add for all files.

Regards,

Zooko

http://bugs.darcs.net/issue80 (record: memory usage is 2X patch size)
http://bugs.darcs.net/issue162 (wish: Avoid heap exhaustion when  
importing large repositories)
http://bugs.darcs.net/issue622 ('darcs convert' - 'out of memory')
http://bugs.darcs.net/issue623 ('darcs get' fails with 'out of  
memory' when getting from local filesystem)
http://bugs.darcs.net/issue631 (darcs add of file larger than memory  
results in "out of memory" error)
http://bugs.darcs.net/issue711 (Darcs2 performance problem with  
`darcs whatsnew')
http://bugs.darcs.net/issue777 (Put runs out of memory)