Mercurial problem with large binary changesets

Wed May 30 16:10:48 UTC 2007

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Matt Mackall wrote:

 >
 > And that's a reasonable number too. No idea how you're getting from
 > there to 400MB.
 >
 >> From your earlier message:
 >
 > hg log: 2007-05-29 17:22:20.278055 - getting bigasslotustemplate.ntf
 > 2007-05-29 17:22:20.490091 - ** unknown exception encountered,
 > details follow
 >
 > ps log: 2007-05-29 17:22:20.501208 -   PID    VSZ 2007-05-29
 > 17:22:20.501705 - 22899 454572
 >
 > What was the memory usage like right before getting the large file?
 >
 > Your machine shouldn't be able to plow 400MB into swap in .2 seconds.
 >  Do you have strict overcommit turned on in your kernel? (I assume
 > this is Linux?)
 >

I don't know much that much about that so:

fdgonthier at nemo:~$ cat /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory
0

I join the memory usage log vs time.  Memory usage goes up and down a
lot until it reaches the point where it crash.
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