On 2010/02/23 15:56, C. Bensend wrote: > I'll take a guess and say it's probably the process needing a lot > of memory... I think rsync is trying to calculate a list of all > the files it needs to transfer, from the error message it spits > out. So, looking at root's limits:
Check that *both* sides use rsync v3; it uses an incremental list whereas v<=2 transfer a list of all files at once. > I'll take a guess and say it's probably the max memory size that > might need help? Or the virtual memory? There are various memory limits on i386 that you won't be able to avoid. It might be informative to see how large the process grows before failing (e.g. watch with top -s1 -grsync).
