Eric Echter [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] writes: > I recently installed rsync 2.5.5 on both my rsync server and client being > used. I installed the latest version because I was having problems with > rsync stalling with version 2.4.6 (I read that 2.5.5 was supposed to clear > this up or at least give more appropriate errors). I am still having > problems with rsync stalling even after upgrading to 2.5.5. It only stalls > in the "/home" tree and there are approximately 385,000 (38.5 MB of memory > give or take if the 100 bytes/file still pertains) files in that tree.
The key growth factor for the file construction is going to be per-file information that's about 56 bytes (last I looked) per file. However, the kicker is that the file storage block gets resized exponentially as you have more files. So for 385,000 files it'll actually be a 512,000 file block of about 30MB. (So yeah, I suppose an ~50 byte file chunk in memory growing as a power of 2 might average out close to 100 bytes/file as an estimate :-)) > ERROR: out of memory in build_hash_table > rsync error: error allocating core memory buffers (code 22) at util.c(232) Seems like that's just a real out of memory error. You'll only get that error if a malloc() call returned NULL. I presume there's still enough virtual memory available on the server at the point when this fails? Could you be running into a process limit on virtual memory? What's a "ulimit -a" show for a server process? I think under Linux the default settings are in /etc/security/limits.conf, maybe by default processes on the server are limited to 32MB of memory or something? -- David /-----------------------------------------------------------------------\ \ David Bolen \ E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / | FitLinxx, Inc. \ Phone: (203) 708-5192 | / 860 Canal Street, Stamford, CT 06902 \ Fax: (203) 316-5150 \ \-----------------------------------------------------------------------/ -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
