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

[Schmitt, Martin]

> What is this "caught SIGPIPE" in Line 4? Could it be that the 
> underlying
> SSH2 is failing on me?

I dug out an ancient post from Tridge where he talks about a socketpair()
call that should be used instead of pipe() when rsyncing over SSH.

http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/rsync/2000-January/001743.html

Is this still valid? 

-martin