Re: [Monotone-devel] "memory exhausted" error for 'mtn list status' command

[Drakie Awita]

Nathaniel:

No, I'm not using Reiser FS; it happens on both ext3 FS (debian
linux), and NTFS (Windows XP).

I've found that, if I move the large un-versioned sub-directory
(contrib/oss.boost.release) out of the project root dir, then 'mtn
list unknown' works ok.  So it looks like the problem is related to
the "path-walking" code you mentioned.  One quick test you might try
to reproduce this problem is to download and untar boost_1_33_1.tar.gz
inside your mtn project directory, and do a 'mtn list unknown'.

Thanks for your reply; I'll try pull your fixes later.

--- Drakie

On 7/28/06, Nathaniel Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 07:09:23PM -0700, Drakie Awita wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've been a happy mtn user for a while, and the upgrade to v0.27 is ok
> > except for one problem: if I have some large amount of un-versioned
> > files/sub-directories (thousands of them) under my versioned project
> > tree, then 'mtn list unknow' command errors out with "memory
> > exhausted" message:
> >
> > # mtn list unknown
> > mtn: fatal: std::runtime_error: Memory exhausted
> > mtn:
> > mtn: this is almost certainly a bug in monotone.
> > mtn: please send this error message, the output of 'mtn --full-version',
> > mtn: and a description of what you were doing to address@hidden
> > mtn: wrote debugging log to ....../_MTN/debug
> > mtn: if reporting a bug, please include this file
>
> Are you using reiserfs, by chance?  Some bad interaction between
> reiserfs, glibc, and our path walking code caused it to take up rather
> a lot of memory before monotone revision 6c0bb3dfda5f24ce59 (which I
> just committed).
>
> The ignore file doesn't matter here, because at the moment we don't
> have separate code to scan for unknown and ignored files; instead, we
> always scan for both, and then print only one or both lists.  Possibly
> we should change that too, but first it would be good to know if my
> previous patch helps?
>
> -- Nathaniel
>
> --
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