Re: Can't Allocate Region

[Mark D. Baushke]

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Fisher, Allen <address@hidden> writes:

> Using Mac CVSX and I'm checking in our installer source files. One of
> the files is a Mindvision Vise VCT file. It's size is quite large,
> around 195 MB. It's been checking in for a few weeks now, but now I get
> the following errors from CVS:
> 
> cvs(1558) malloc: ***vm_allocate(size=277180416) failed (error code=3)
> cvs(1558) malloc: ***error: can't allocate region
> cvs [commit aborted]: out of memory; can not allocate 277176512 bytes
> 
> Is there a setting somewhere that I can tweak to bump up the memory
> allocation?

Your cvs process is attempting to ~265 MB for your file. You need to do
one or more of the following:

  1) increase the amount of virtual memory you have on your server, 

  2) you need to increase the amount of virtual memory a single process is
     allowed to allocate for your user

  3) you need to find another method of controlling your Mindvision Vise
     VCT files.

It should be noted that CVS does not do well with binary files. I
understand that CVSNT has another method for storing binary files which
may be 'better' for your purposes...

        -- Mark
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