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Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:36:10 -0600
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According to Michael Sullivan on 8/19/2009 10:23 AM:
> Howdy.  When using Cygwin 1.7.0-59 and git 1.6.3.2-1 with a pretty large
> repository (2.7 Gbytes), I'm having a crash using the "git gc" command:
> 
>     4 [main] git 9880 C:\cygwin2\bin\git.exe: *** fatal error - cmalloc
>     would have returned NULL error: failed to run repack
> 
> 
> I don't get this crash when using Cygwin 1.5 and the git 1.6.1.2.  Is
> this something I should tell you or report elsewhere?

Tell the list.  cmalloc is an internal function to cygwin1.dll, so if
there is something that git is doing that uses too much memory (or worse
leaks) in 1.7 with its long pathname support, where it didn't in 1.5, we'd
like to know what it is so we can fix it, because more than just git would
be affected.

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             ebb9 AT byu DOT net
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