Re: Problems checking out & updating files: fatal signal 11; Virtual memory

[Larry Jones]

Avi Green writes:
> 
> Apparently CVS wasn't designed for huge files (especially the size of
> graphic files today!) and suffers from some memory inefficiencies on
> checkout and diff operations.  The apparent solution for such files is
> either not to use CVS or to throw hardware at the problem.  Is this in
> fact the case, or is there a fix?  I'm using version 1.10, which of
> course isn't the MOST recent.

1.11 has a number of memory leaks fixed which might help, but it really
looks like you need more virtual memory (i.e., swap space).  If I'm
reading things correctly, you've got 130MB files in the repository that
you're trying to work with and only 260MB of swap for the entire system! 
Disk space is cheap these days; you need to get some more.

-Larry Jones

I don't NEED to compromise my principles, because they don't have
the slightest bearing on what happens to me anyway. -- Calvin