From 5dea16889e42042a0841662d9e3b2c7be2ca4923 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawkhdKAhe3l_UyGt5SdfRBPYVwe-9f8P2dM" Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 04:37:52 +0000 Subject: --- doc/forum/Problems_with_large_numbers_of_files.mdwn | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/forum/Problems_with_large_numbers_of_files.mdwn (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/forum/Problems_with_large_numbers_of_files.mdwn b/doc/forum/Problems_with_large_numbers_of_files.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..943b979d6 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/Problems_with_large_numbers_of_files.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +I'm trying to use git-annex to archive scientific data. I'm often dealing with large numbers of files, sometimes 10k or more. When I try to git-annex add these files I get this error: + + +Stack space overflow: current size 8388608 bytes. +Use `+RTS -Ksize' to increase it. + + +This is with the latest version of git-annex and a current version of git on OS 10.6.7. After this error occurs, I am unable to un-annex the files and I'm forced to recover from a backup. -- cgit v1.2.3