Trouble Committing Binary Files

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Mon Nov 3 17:19:11 CST 2008


On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 14:48 -0800, Clark Hwang wrote:
> I can't seem to commit a binary file that's about 300 MB in size.   My
> workstation has 2 GIB of RAM.  Mercurial tells me "abort: out of
> memory".
> I was thinking the 300 MB was not over the 2 x file size limit on my
> workstation.   Please advise.

Which version of Mercurial are you using and how much -free- memory do
you have? If you're running Linux, send the output of the 'free'
command.

The factor may actually be more like 5 or 6.

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