To answer my own question, my rsync process has grown to 1 Gig resident in memory and seems to be holding steady at size as it keeps chugging along.
Boy am I glad incremental recursion has been added - thanks!! I would never have been able to do this rsync otherwise. Aleksey On 8/14/08, Aleksey Tsalolikhin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. Let's say I have 10,000 files per directory. If I understood > Wayne, rsync builds a list for all the files in the current dir, plus > another list for the directory being read-ahead. > > So how much memory should rsync use, for 20,000 files? > > I did double-check with -v, and it says "receiving incremental file > list" at the start of the rsync session. > > I've also removed the -H option. > > My options now are: > > --numeric-ids > --perms > --owner > --group > -D > --links > --times > --block-size=2048 > --recursive > -v > --ignore-times > > What should I expect in terms of rsync's memory usage, please? > > Best, > Aleksey > -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
