Error "out of memory" when checking out large binary

[Tom Simons]

When checking out a directory with large binary files, cvs fails with
"out of memory".  How can we get around this?

$ cvs checkout PKI/WFCMS/robodemo/src
cvs server: Updating PKI/WFCMS/robodemo/src
U PKI/WFCMS/robodemo/src/Browser_Based.rd
U PKI/WFCMS/robodemo/src/Exchange5.5_Browser.rd
cvs [server aborted]: out of memory; can not reallocate 31457280 bytes

Here's what the directory looks like in the repository:

[cvs]$ ll PKI/WFCMS/robodemo/src
-r--r--r--   1 kalaiahp   cvs        16866839 Dec 17 17:46 Browser_Based.rd,v
-r--r--r--   1 kalaiahp   cvs        19576910 Dec 17 17:46
Exchange5.5_Browser.rd,v
-r--r--r--   1 kalaiahp   cvs        32187968 Dec 17 17:47 Exchange5.5_P12.rd,v
-r--r--r--   1 kalaiahp   cvs        6624815 Dec 17 17:47 Management.rd,v
-r--r--r--   1 kalaiahp   cvs        1847691 Dec 17 17:47 Outlook_Browser.rd,v
-r--r--r--   1 kalaiahp   cvs        2748271 Dec 17 17:47 Outlook_P12.rd,v
-r--r--r--   1 kalaiahp   cvs        13262220 Dec 17 17:47 WFCMS_P12.rd,v
-r--r--r--   1 kalaiahp   cvs        21998898 Dec 17 17:48 WLAN.rd,v