Ubuntu 11.04 and gitk problem

[Ben Hutchings]

On Sun, 2011-05-15 at 00:09 +0300, Anca Emanuel wrote:
> Hi, all.
> 
> I try to run gitk from command line.
> 
> Steps to reproduce:
> 1. git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
> 2. cd linux-2.6
> 3. gitk
> 
> I can not run it. That kills my system (2GB RAM) and Unity as well.
> Any ideeas ?

What you're supposed to do is to limit the number of commits it pulls in
in some way.  Since I sometimes forget to do that, I defined a gitk
alias that limits its memory usage so it will die without taking
anything else with it:

    gitk() { (ulimit -v 1000000 && exec \gitk "$@"); }

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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