title: git clone ends with Broken Pipe
body: <p>I have a very big git repository and want to clone from it. On <strong>one machine (ArchLinux with git version 2.2.2)</strong> everything works fine...</p>
  
  <pre><code>Cloning into 'foo'
  remote: Counting objects: 2372505, done
  remote: Compressing objects: 100% (456914/456914), done.
  Receiving objects: 100% (2372505/2372505), 3.81 GiB | 6.20 MiB/s, done.
  ...
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>... but <strong>on another machine (Ubuntu with git version 2.3.0, also tried with 1.7.0.4)</strong>, I only see the following:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Cloning into 'foo'
  remote: Counting objects: 2372505, done.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and after some hours, it ends with</p>
  
  <pre><code>Write failed: Broken pipe
  fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
  fatal: early EOF
  fatal: index-pack failed
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>Any idea what's the problem?</strong></p>
  
  <p>By the way:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>The remote end is a gitlab server.</li>
  <li>I'm using SSH in both cases.</li>
  <li>The first (working) machine is connected via VPN (100 MBit/s).</li>
  <li>The second (non-working) machine is in the same gigabit-subnet as the gitlab server.</li>
  </ul>