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I know this has been asked a lot but I did not manage to get any solution to solve my problem.

My coworker assigned me on a new project. The application is hosted on test Debian server with git installed.

First I have created my branch :

git checkout -b mybranch

Then I have done small modifications to some files.

When I tried to push it to Github (using my github account)

git add myfile.php
git commit -m "my first commit"
git push origin mybranch

I get this error :

fatal: Out of memory, malloc failed

I don't understand what this mean. The total size of the files I tried to push is 156Ko. Moreover the total size of the project is only 10,9Mo.

I tried to reboot the server but the same happen.

When I run free on the server I get :

             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        505312     239532     265780          0      51576      71580
-/+ buffers/cache:     116376     388936
Swap:            0          0          0

My coworkers never had this problem before, even on the same test server.

Can someone highlight me on the reason of this error and a possible workaround?
Thanks in advance.

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  • Have you tried changing the settings in .git/config as suggested here?
    – 111---
    May 13, 2015 at 14:06
  • Yes but no luck...
    – hg8
    May 13, 2015 at 14:11
  • Can you try again with the -v flag, git push -v, and post the full error (redacting your repo info of course).
    – 111---
    May 13, 2015 at 14:24
  • The -v flag does not add anything to the error message...
    – hg8
    May 13, 2015 at 14:33
  • This looks like a bug somewhere. What version of Debian does the machine have? Can you reproduce the problem by cloning a local repository rather than one on github? If you can reproduce the problem without using any credentials or private information, run strace -o git.strace -tt git push origin mybranch (or whatever the failing git … command is) and post the resulting git.strace file (don't post the trace if it might contain something like a password).
    – Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
    May 13, 2015 at 22:20

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Turn out it was indeed a ram problem. 268mo was not enough for git to function properly.

I solved the problem by adding 1Go of swap to the server:

$ sudo fallocate -l 1G /swapfile
$ sudo chmod 600 /swapfile
$ sudo mkswap /swapfile
$ sudo swapon /swapfile
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  • How did you do that, Im getting same issue.
    – Pramod
    May 31, 2016 at 10:08
  • for example take a look at it: linuxize.com/post/how-to-add-swap-space-on-ubuntu-18-04
    – István Döbrentei
    Nov 15, 2019 at 20:32
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    This turned out to be my issue as well. Running on a small AWS EC2
    – ParoX
    May 27, 2020 at 4:33
  • Great answer, I let myself top it up with increasing internal GIT limits following creation of the swap file: git config pack.packSizeLimit 1g git config pack.deltaCacheSize 1g git config pack.windowMemory 1g git config core.packedGitLimit 1g git config core.packedGitWindowSize 1g
    – azgooon
    Feb 14 at 10:57
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I was getting same error as I was running jenkins in docker

I stop container and run git and this fixed the problem

Try to free some more space in RAM

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I checked my RAM usage.

Enter command:

free -mh

I got very little left of RAM.

So I stopped my docker container and checked my RAM again.

Now it's back to normal.

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