Git pull fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed

Question

I\'ve a repo on https://bitbucket.org/

Few days ago by a mistake big number of image files were pushed in the repo. then files were deleted via another push. after that

Answer 1

In my case it was something as simple as trying to pull a big repo in a 1GB RAM box without swap.

I followed this tutorial https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-add-swap-on-ubuntu-14-04 to create some swap space on the server and worked.

Their "faster" way:

sudo fallocate -l 4G /swapfile
sudo chmod 600 /swapfile
sudo mkswap /swapfile
sudo swapon /swapfile

You can make these changes permanent by adding to /etc/fstab:

/swapfile   none    swap    sw    0   0

They recommend adding to /etc/sysctl.conf:

vm.swappiness=10
vm.vfs_cache_pressure = 50