I have downloaded and built rsync 2.6.0 on our HP ProLiant DL380-G3 servers (2 Hyperthread processors, 4 GB RAM, 840 GB Hard Disk, etc. etc.) running Red Hat 8 with the latest errata kernel (2.4.20-28smp) and updates from HP for RH8.
rsync is run in daemon mode from xinetd. When doing transfers the machine requesting the transfer starts to run out of memory. After every rsync transfer there is a large amount of memory that is not freed up. The amount seems to be related to the number of files being transfered, not the number of bytes transfered. It is interesting to note that the transfer is started from the receiving machine, and the memory leak is on the receiving side. The sending side does not experience the leak. I have read other lists where there were memory leak problems with older versions that were related to the files lists and tokens, and I am wondering if that has crept back into the 2.6.0 code. Or, (perhaps more likely =8^) there is something wrong with my configuration or there were some configure options I did not set. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks J. Kelly Garrett, CISSP Security Engineer Level (3) Communications 180 Peachtree Street, Suite 300 Atlanta, GA 30303 (404) 526-4518 -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
