Subject: Re: Out of memory error during git push

From: Jonathan Nieder <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:50:11 -0500

Thomas Jampen wrote:

> vm.overcommit_memory = 0
> 
> Do you propose to set this to '2' in order to disable overcommitting?

It might be interesting to try

 echo 1 >/proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory

but 0 is generally the only sane setting.