Running cvs up -Ad, I'm getting the following error thrown:
cvs [update aborted]: out of memory; can not allocate 333685120 bytes
But upon investigation, (running top), there appears to be enough free memory after all.
Mem: 1025528k total, 521660k used, 503868k free, 48736k buffers
Does anyone know of any common CVS issues that might cause this error to be thrown as something of a red herring? If memory isn't the real problem, any ideas as to what I can do to find out what is?
There are at least 3 solutions for this bug:
A) Uninstall CVSNT, then install CVSNT-x64. Because this bug is already fixed in 64-bit version of CVSNT.
B) Fix this bug in your currently installed (32-bit) cvs.exe binary by using editbin.exe tool from Visual Studio distribution. Use this command:
C) If you can't reinstall or modify your CVSNT, then as a temporary solution, try updating separate sub-folders and/or separate files in the folder you are trying to update, one-by-one, to make CVSNT allocate less memory.