Malloc failed upon git pull

I get this error trying to git pull:

$git pull origin master
remote: Counting objects: 91, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (79/79), done.
fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed (tried to allocate 2445656885 bytes)
fatal: unpack-objects failed

How can I resolve this?

I have tried setting some memory limits in the .gitconfig, but it did not help:

[pack]
    threads = 1
    deltaCacheSize = 128m
    packSizeLimit = 128m
    windowMemory = 128m
[core]
    packedGitLimit = 128m
    packedGitWindowSize = 128m

user1447257

Posted 2015-02-10T18:52:28.917

Reputation: 123

Answers

2445656885 is approx 2.5 GB. A quite unusually large number, I am not sure if malloc even allowed to request this much. May be a sign of a software bug.Check your git installation.

ilkhd

Posted 2015-02-10T18:52:28.917

Reputation: 224

Well I have this one binary file which is quite big. Git allowed a push and pull on a 64bit system. Now I pulled from a 32bit system, could that be it? – user1447257 – 2015-02-10T23:53:10.423

Yes. This could be the reason. – ilkhd – 2015-02-11T10:10:05.407

Is there a way to tell git to operate on disk space using big files? – user1447257 – 2015-02-11T14:20:31.990