On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 12:51 -0500, Dave Sill wrote: > I'm using rsync 2.6.9 under Solaris 10. The file system I'm trying to > sync has ~7.6 million files. Here's what happens: > > # rsync -avS . /newfiles1 > building file list ... done > rsync: fork failed in do_recv: Not enough space (12) > rsync error: error in IPC code (code 14) at main.c(709) [receiver=2.6.9] > rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (8 bytes received so far) [sender] > rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(453) > [sender=2.6.9] > # > > Anyone know what's going on?
Probably the machine is out of memory. Either free up some memory, break the rsync run into smaller pieces, or try a development version of rsync 3.0.0, which has an incremental recursion algorithm that avoids holding a list of all the source files in memory. Matt -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
