Re: check in a big file

[David Fuller]

Couple questions: 
1) how big is the versioned file?  
2) why are you versioning such a big file?  I would consider that a
'BAD' idea.

-- David F.

> Rafael Luque Leiva wrote:
> 
> Many thanks all for your previous help.
> 
> Now I have another problem. I'm trying to add a big size file (~80MB)
> in my cvs server running over SuSE 7. Before commit, the output of a
> "free -m" in the server is:
> 
> address@hidden:/home/ltr > free -m
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers
> cached
> Mem:           127         16        111          0
> 5          3
> -/+ buffers/cache:          7        120
> Swap:          128          2        125
> 
> However when I commit the file using WinCVS1.2, after minutes, my
> client aborts with:
> 
> cvs [server aborted]: out of memory; can not reallocate 82700697 bytes
> 
> How many free memory I would need to commit this file? Some way to
> work round this problem with big files?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Rafa,