> Mark Jaffe wrote:
> >
> > CVS is issuing an "out of memory" message on attempting to checkin a
> > 12MB file. What can I do? There is 300M of swap on the machine, it is
> > running FreeBSD 2.2.8, and CVS says:
> > "Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.9.26 (client/server)"
>
> Anyone help?
How big is the history file size (compared to the processes' max
allowed data size)? CVS has a number of brain-damanged areas; one in
particular is that CVS reads the *ENTIRE* history file into memory when
doing stuff ... and it's doing so simply to scan the history file
line-by-line ....
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