On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, Dave Mielke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Using rsync-2.6.6, I'm getting:
>
> unable to alloc 417794083 bytes
>
> Under what circumstances would rsync allocate a block that large? Must it be
> able to allocate a block as large as the largest file or something? Is there a
> way to limit it?
Rsync uses buffered I/O for file transfer - it does not allocate memory
based on the size of a file.
The size is not an even number, so it's not from an flist expansion or
any other buffer allocation.
Hmm. That's not even a message from rsync. Rsync reports:
ERROR: out of memory in FOO
where FOO is a tag indicating where the problem happened (for example,
the name of the subroutine).
You need to provide more info - O/S, command used, what had happened
up to the error, etc. Use -vv with rsync to get more info.
John
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