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I am trying to branch the emacs trunk:

$ mkdir emacs
$ bzr init-repo emacs
Shared repository with trees (format: 2a)
Location:
  shared repository: emacs
$ bzr branch bzr://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/emacs/trunk trunk
Killed39KB  2666KB/s | Fetching revisions:Inserting stream

After launching the bzr branch command, the download begins, after a while it is killed and the trunk directory is empty. Relaunching the same command does not help, it seems it is not able to recover for intermediate states. As a consequence I must remove the directory and re-start from scratch which does not help in making the branching go further.

Possible issue: my internet connection is not great but it does seems to be the cause. I tried from various location, as well as from a remote hosted VPS: same behavior!

I may try multiple time in a row (removing the folder), it is impossible for it to complete.

How does people branch the emacs trunk repository? Is that a tool(bzr) or repository server issue? Do you think it is anyway related to my setup? Bad command?

yves Baumes
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  • What about RAM consumption? Perhaps it allocates and uses too much. – Mischa Arefiev Feb 22 '13 at 11:32
  • @MischaArefiev You're right. From /var/log/syslog : ```Feb 22 12:43:11 xxxxxx kernel: [584519.697873] OOM killed process 21740 (bzr) vm:676940kB, rss:513028kB, swap:88164kB``` . That's just a shame. I will see how do deal with that. Anyway feel free to post a real answer I'll accept it as a gratification!! :-) – yves Baumes Feb 22 '13 at 11:51

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Perhaps the process tries to allocate and use too much RAM, and is killed by the kernel after the memory pool is exhausted (you can check dmesg for such message). Googling for «bzr killed out of memory» yields a number of bug reports:

I guess you can try a machine with more RAM as a workaround, or, if it is a repository format issue (such as mentioned in the bug reports above) perform the steps suggested in comments to these reports.

Mischa Arefiev
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