~$ free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          1010        109        901          0          5         32
-/+ buffers/cache:         71        939
Swap:         1906        397       1509
rune@rao:~/bzr.repo$ du -sh
9,9G    .
rune@rao:~/bzr.repo$ bzr info
Shared repository (format: pack-0.92)
Location:
  shared repository: .

So I have a shared repository taking up 10GB and less than 10GB memory.
This gives me problems (I run out of memory), when I run bzr check (and other commands).

rune@rao:~/bzr.repo$ cd data
rune@rao:~/bzr.repo/data$ bzr check
bzr: ERROR: bzrlib.errors.KnitCorrupt: Knit <bzrlib.knit._PackAccess object at 0x86de70c> corrupt: While reading {<email address hidden>} got MemoryError()

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 834, in run_bzr_catch_errors
    return run_bzr(argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 790, in run_bzr
    ret = run(*run_argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/commands.py", line 492, in run_argv_aliases
    return self.run(**all_cmd_args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/builtins.py", line 2408, in run
    check(branch_obj, verbose)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/check.py", line 254, in check
    repo_result = branch.repository.check([branch.last_revision()])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/decorators.py", line 127, in read_locked
    return unbound(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/repository.py", line 1847, in check
    return self._check(revision_ids)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/repository.py", line 1851, in _check
    result.check()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/check.py", line 79, in check
    self.check_one_rev(rev_id)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/check.py", line 190, in check_one_rev
    self._check_revision_tree(rev_id)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/check.py", line 234, in _check_revision_tree
    ie.check(self, rev_id, inv, tree)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/inventory.py", line 375, in check
    self._check(checker, rev_id, tree)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/inventory.py", line 598, in _check
    if self.text_sha1 != w.get_sha1(self.revision):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/knit.py", line 760, in get_sha1
    return self.get_sha1s([version_id])[0]
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/knit.py", line 764, in get_sha1s
    record_map = self._get_record_map(version_ids)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/knit.py", line 1121, in _get_record_map
    self._data.read_records_iter(records):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/knit.py", line 2639, in read_records_iter
    content, digest = self._parse_record(version_id, data)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/knit.py", line 2545, in _parse_record
    % (version_id, e.__class__.__name__, str(e)))
KnitCorrupt: Knit <bzrlib.knit._PackAccess object at 0x86de70c> corrupt: While reading {<email address hidden>} got MemoryError()

bzr 1.3.1rc1 on python 2.5.1.final.0 (linux2)
arguments: ['/usr/bin/bzr', 'check']
encoding: 'UTF-8', fsenc: 'UTF-8', lang: 'en_DK.UTF-8'
plugins:
  launchpad            /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/bzrlib/plugins/launchpad [unknown]
*** Bazaar has encountered an internal error.
    Please report a bug at https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+filebug
    including this traceback, and a description of what you
    were doing when the error occurred.


Also I cannot check out this branch on my Windows because it run out of memory (32 bit Windows XP, has 4 GB ram).

Q:\>bzr version
Bazaar (bzr) 2.0.0
  Python interpreter: C:\Program Files\Bazaar\python25.dll 2.5.4
  Python standard library: C:\Program Files\Bazaar\lib\library.zip
  Platform: Windows-XP-5.1.2600-SP3
  bzrlib: C:\Program Files\Bazaar\lib\library.zip\bzrlib
  Bazaar configuration: C:\Documents and Settings\rphilosof\Application Data\baz
aar\2.0
  Bazaar log file: C:\Documents and Settings\rphilosof\My Documents\.bzr.log