git push fatal: unable to create thread: Resource temporarily unavailable

Question

I'm new to git. I'm want to push a large commit to a remote server but the problem is when I use

git push origin master

it return the error

Counting objects: 5009, done.
Delta compression using up to 16 threads.
fatal: unable to create thread: Resource temporarily unavailable
error: pack-objects died with strange error

So is there anyway I can set the max thread use for Delta Compression.

Thanks for help,

Yuan Chen

Answer 1

The error: "fatal: unable to create thread: Resource temporarily unavailable" strongly suggests you've run out of memory on the server, which can happen if you have a repository with lots of large files, which can cause re-packing to take a lot of memory, or limited virtual memory - either in general, or just for that account due to the ulimit setting.

Anyways, here's the commands you can run to limit the amount of memory that packing may take by logging into the remote system (as the user that git runs as) and typing these commands:

git config --global pack.windowMemory "100m"
git config --global pack.packSizeLimit "100m"
git config --global pack.threads "1"

Hope this works.