Re: memory exhausted

[Alex Krasnov]

The RCS file is essentially of the same size as is the working copy, since 
there is only one revision. One particular file is 360 MB in size, which 
is approximately the resident memory size of the server CVS process 
immediately before it fails.

The behavior of the server CVS process makes sense to me. I am more 
interested in why it leads to a memory allocation failure and whether 
there are ways to configure CVS to require a smaller memory footprint or 
the OS to allow a larger memory footprint.

On a side note, I actually sent my question before the amazingly similar 
one by Kevin Bulgrien--not entirely certain why it took so long to 
deliver. Also, sorry about the duplicate message; I sent it in hope that 
the first message simply got dropped somewhere along the way.

Alex


On Thu, 13 Nov 2008, Paul Sander wrote:

> We just had a similar question yesterday.  When CVS reads RCS files, it mmaps
> them into virtual memory.  When CVS fails, how large is the RCS file it's
> processing at the time, in comparison to the metrics you indicate below?