[darcs-users] darcs: realloc: resource exhausted (out of memory)

[Robin Bate Boerop]

Jason,

Thanks for caring.  Here's the output of 'darcs show repo':
          Type: darcs
        Format: hashed, darcs-2
          Root: /home/bnnb/web/BNNB_Plone3
      Pristine: HashedPristine
         Cache: thisrepo:/home/bnnb/web/BNNB_Plone3
   Num Patches: 0

Yes, that's right - this is the first 'darcs record'.  Previously, I
tried adding the same files to another repo; it failed, and I thought
there was a corruption in the repo.  So, I made a new one, and tried
again.  Same result.

Something different about this repo: I've removed almost everything
from _darcs/prefs/boring, because I really do want everything in the
repo - binary files and all.  The 'darcs record' is trying to add 211
MB of files to the repo, spread across about 30,000 files.

The machine on which this is running has plenty of physical memory
(8GB+).  The system is a virtualized Linux 2.6.9.

2008/11/25 Jason Dagit <dagit at codersbase.com>:
> Hi Robin!
>
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Robin Bate Boerop <robin at shorestreet.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> When recording a patch, I get:
>>
>> darcs: realloc: resource exhausted (out of memory)
>>
>> This is on version 2.1.2 (release).  What am I doing wrong?
>
> Oh no.  That certainly shouldn't happen.  Could you tell us more about what
> you're doing when this happens?  I don't recall ever seeing this particular
> message before, but given the bit about "out of memory" it sounds like you
> might be working with large files?
>
> Could you provide us with the output of 'darcs show repo'.  I'm interested
> in which type of repo this is, darcs1, hashed or darcs2.
>
> Thanks for the bug report.
>
> Jason

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Robin Bate Boerop