"Granzow, Doug (NCI)" wrote: > > From what I've observed by running top while rsync is running, its memory > usage appears to grow gradually, not exponentially. A rsync may take > several hours to complete. (I have one running now that started over four > hours ago. The filesystem contains 236 GB of data in 2.4 million files. It > is currently taking up 1351MB of memory on the mirror server and 646M on the > source server.) All filesystems are veritas filesystem, in case that is > relevant.
I just killed a 750M rsync (2.5.5) process. It had been runing for over 12 hours. (around 62G in 1.2 million files).. This was a local rsync without any ssh/remsh/rsyncd involved. I went back to the 'for file in *;do rsync blaa;done' method. This helps it run in a reasonable amount of time and RAM. I'd still like to be able to run a rsync on the toplevel (without the for loop...) eric -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
