[cvsnt] out of memory with cvs log...

Victor A. Wagner Jr. vawjr at rudbek.com
Fri Jun 10 22:27:35 BST 2005


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At 09:09 2005-06-10, John Cole wrote:
>I was testing a script and ran into this problem with 2.5.01 (Travis) Build
>1976 and 2.5.01 (Travis) Build 1990.
>
>When I issue a cvs log command on one of our very large binary files, I get
>an out of memory error:
>
> >cvs log uaMain2.exe
>cvs [server aborted]: out of memory; can not reallocate 415236096 bytes
>
>This is on our hot backup server which is running W2K3 Server, and has 1GB
>of memory.  VM is set to 1.5GB, and watching the task manager, CVSNT throws
>the error when the PF hits 1.0GB (It's idling at 200MB).
>
>On our primary server, which is running XP Pro SP1 with 1GB of memory and
>2.0.41a this works fine (the repositories are copied from the primary to the
>hot backup each night).
>
>The client in both cases is 2.0.62.1817.  The ,v file is 538MB with 37
>revisions of 13MB each.

it doesn't have to be a binary file.  I have a very large (1.2gb) file 
that's all text and has approximately 1000 changes in it that runs forever 
then gives an out of memory error.  I have NO idea what memory is needed to 
produce a log and why it would be processing so much stuff.



>Thanks,
>
>John Cole
>
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