My ~/.darcs/defaults looks like this:

get --set-scripts-executable
pull --set-scripts-executable
send --sign

I'll let you know how the tests with strace go.

On 28/01/2008, Mark Stosberg <bugs@darcs.net> wrote:
> James, to debug this further:
>
> Would you have any preferences in ~/.darcs/prefs which could be affecting this?
>
> You mentioned it happens with Darcs2. How about if you use "darcs get --hashed" ?
>
> also, you can try this:
>
> strace darcs get foo foo-cloned.
>
> That will spew all the low level system calls that are happening. (There will be
> many!). Although the output will be verbose, you should be able to perhaps get
> an idea of what's going on when the system runs out of memory, and/or how the
> local case differs from the http case.
>
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