Memory issues on 2.1.0b4-2 standalone installer

[John Szakmeister]

On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Joseph Winston <josephwinston at mac.com> wrote:
> When I use the bzr version 2.1.0b4-2 on a Vista-64 system, bzr reports that
> it is out of memory.
>
> I'm running the following command to check out a large SVN branch that
> contains at least one file that is about 500M.
>
> bzr checkout --lightweight svn://somemachine/ndi/eiw/trunk
> D:/home/jody/work/BZR/EIW
>
> After working for I while, I receive the following message:
>
> Out of memory - terminating application.
>
> This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual
> way. Please contact the application's support team for more information.
>
> This is on a system with 16G of RAM and 32G of swap. Window's task manager
> never shows more than 4G usage.
>
> Does this issue mean that I need to build a complete x86_64 version of
> bazaar so that I can checkout this branch?

FWIW, I've seen a similar issue too.  The memory usage was high (maybe
600MB), but we had plenty of memory free on the system.  I don't think
it was an out-of-memory error on my system... it was an access
violation (segfault).  Not sure why though.  Any attempt of mine to
try and debug it has failed horribly. :-(

-John