RE: The "out of memory" problem with large numbers of files

[David Bolen]

Dave Dykstra [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] writes:

> No, that behavior should be identical with the --include-from/exclude '*'
> approach; I don't believe rsync uses any memory for excluded files.

Actually, I think there's an exclude_struct allocated somewhere per
file (looks like 28 bytes or so), but the growth algorithm is not
exponential (it just reallocates two entries at a time it looks like).

But I expect compared to other stuff it's in the noise.

-- David

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