On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Sean Carolan <scarolan at gmail.com> wrote: > I have run into a snag with my CVS installation: > > [scarolan at neinei:~]$ cvs co -P installfiles > cvs checkout: Updating installfiles > cvs [checkout aborted]: out of memory; can not allocate 1022462837 bytes > > Unfortunately we have a couple of large binary .tgz files in the > repository. I was able to check them in but as you can see I can't > check them out because of memory limitations. I have even added 2 > more gigs of swap space but it still errors out. I noticed while > watching it that it doesn't seem to use all the swap space. Any > pointers? Checking in binary files into CVS or any repository control system is usually a broken thing. You want to either check in the stuff inside the tar ball seperately (if its going to change), or just copy it into the archive by updating CVSROOT/cvswrappers *.tar -k 'b' -m 'COPY' *.tbz -k 'b' -m 'COPY' *.tgz -k 'b' -m 'COPY' -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"