The problem stemmed from an entry http.postbuffer in .gitconfig. Please close the bug report.
On 12/21/2016 09:18 AM, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote: > 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> > > -- no debconf information >
