RE: Unable to commit 150MB text design file (out of memory)

[Arthur Barrett]

Kevin,

> Using a 1.11 cvs client under MSYS 

Do you mean Microsoft Windows with MingW installed?

Which EXACT version of 1.11 are you running?

> 
>   cvs [remove aborted]: out of memory
>   cvs [commit aborted]: out of memory
>   cvs [update aborted]: out of memory
> 

If you are running ms windows then the problem may be a bug in the
Microsoft C runtime library.  If you reallocate a memory block enough
times then eventually MSVCRT claims it is out of memory when in fact
there is still plenty available.  It's been a bug for years now.  We've
shipped patches of CVSNT to customers with support that either uses the
native windows memory alloction calls or simply allocates the memory in
large 'chunks' to get around the issue.  The current FOSS builds of
CVSNT don't have this patch since we are still evaluating the success of
it.

Of course if you've compiled with Ming then it may be using its own C
run time which may have the same or a different problem or it could just
be a known bug in the (unknown) version of 1.11 you are using.

Regards,



Arthur