[Sussex] Running out of memory :(

[Andy Smith]

Hi,

On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 11:47:12AM +0100, Richie Jarvis wrote:
> The problem is that the poor little system keeps running out of memory.  
> >From what I understand, rsync builds a filelist on both sides of the 
> equation in order to determine what to transfer over, and holds that 
> data in memory, which is where I believe the problems start occurring.  

Have you tried using rsync 3?  It is a bit better at memory
management.  Have you tried running rsync under ulimits to make sure
it can't use more RAM than you have?  At least that would prevent it
killing the machine.

Cheers,
Andy

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