Package: git
Version: 1:2.11.0-1
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
on a system with only 512 MB installed I received the following error:
$ free
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 474232 114984 192760 1476 166488 348564
Swap: 0 0 0
$ git clone https://github.com/xypron/skyldav
Cloning into 'skyldav'...
fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed (tried to allocate 536870912 bytes)
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/arm64/ch03s04.html.en
has the following requirements for headless systems:
minimum RAM: 128MiB
recommended: 512MiB
(I could not find the corresponding page for Stretch.)
Allocating 512MiB on git clone without fallback to a smaller quantity
is a violation of this policy.
A possible solution would be to limit the malloc call to 1/4 of the
physical memory (without swap).
Best regards
Heinrich Schuchardt
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: arm64 (aarch64)
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-next-20161212-r015-arm64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL
set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages git depends on:
ii dpkg 1.18.15
ii git-man 1:2.11.0-1
ii libc6 2.24-8
ii libcurl3-gnutls 7.50.1-1
ii liberror-perl 0.17024-1
ii libexpat1 2.2.0-1
ii libpcre3 2:8.39-2
ii perl 5.24.1~rc4-1
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-4
Versions of packages git recommends:
ii less 481-2.1
ii openssh-client [ssh-client] 1:7.3p1-5
ii patch 2.7.5-1
ii rsync 3.1.2-1
Versions of packages git suggests:
ii gettext-base 0.19.8.1-1
pn git-arch <none>
pn git-cvs <none>
pn git-daemon-run | git-daemon-sysvinit <none>
pn git-doc <none>
pn git-el <none>
ii git-email 1:2.11.0-1
pn git-gui <none>
pn git-mediawiki <none>
pn git-svn <none>
pn gitk <none>
pn gitweb <none>
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